A new Super City transport agency will have responsibility for roading as well as buses, rail and ferries in the Auckland region.

Drivers will be banned from using cellphones in their vehicles from November under new rules that will also require motorcyclists to use their headlights during the day.

George Williams, 94, was first across Coromandel Peninsula's Kopu Bridge in 1928 and was on hand to help launch its replacement.

Coromandel residents will join John Key today to celebrate the start of the construction of a $47m Kopu Bridge replacement.

Auckland Harbour Bridge has been left off a list of highway upgrades needed to cope with heavier trucks.