The western French city of Nantes is the first in the country to offer its residents the chance to rent out public bikes for anything from a month to a year.
The scandal-hit company charged with revamping the French capital's bike share system has said the Velib' service won't be fully operational until 2019... a year later than planned.
The scandal-hit company charged with revamping the French capital’s bike share system has pulled 3,000 dysfunctional bikes and all brand-new e-bikes from its stations in the hope of sorting out their relentless glitches.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has pledged to tackle the city's smog with bike-sharing and car-free riverbanks. But with the Velib' fiasco and simmering resentment among drivers, her push to make the French capital go green is faltering.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo promised Thursday to get the city's bike-sharing service back on track by May after a change of operator brought the popular system to a near standstill.
Paris city hall is taking over the installation of new stations for the Velib bike-hire system, following weeks of disastrous efforts by its new operator that have the city's cyclists seeing red.
Paris authorities threatened sanctions Wednesday against the new operator of the city's Velib bike hire system over a chaotic rollout that has left cyclists seething.
A new year means new prices, so life in France is going to get a little more expensive in 2018. Here are the fee changes to look out for, and what they mean for your wallet.
Ten years after Paris launched the wildly popular Velib bicycle-sharing scheme, the grey two-wheelers that have spawned imitators worldwide are getting an electric makeover.
The popular Velib bike rental system in Paris is going to get a major upgrade with a new fleet of bikes to be rolled out. But what will they look like?
A mammoth operation begins on Monday to drain and clean out the picturesque Canal Saint-Martin in Paris. But what will happen to the fish and what will the cleaners find?
Paris's Velib' bike rental scheme turned seven on Tuesday and after a rocky start it is now firmly part of the City of Light's transport network. Here's seven key figures to mark the occasion including which foreign nationality is the fondest for the bikes.
Paris’s popular Velib' bike rental system has been such a giant success, that the city has decided to create a version for smaller cyclists. The ‘P’tit Velib’ for kids will hit the pavements and parks on Wednesday.
Far-left activists slashed the tires on over 360 Velib’ bikes in Paris this week in protest of the ‘slave’ labour the programme’s operator uses to repair vandalized bikes. The vandals could themselves end up 'slave' labour.
A woman riding one of Paris' public rental bikes died in a collision with a dump truck in the centre of the French capital on on Wednesday. Initial reports suggest she could have been caught in the driver's blind spot.
Visitors to Paris might soon be able to weave through the city traffic like a true Parisian. City authorities are mulling a new scooter-sharing scheme to follow in the footsteps of the successful Velib' and Autolib' bike and car-sharing systems in the French capital.
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">French transport minister Thierry Mariani will unveil a national cycling strategy on Thursday to encourage the French to spend more time on their bicycles.</span></p>
