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Call to cut airfares as fuel price drops
Airfares should fall to reflect plummeting oil and jet fuel prices but airlines are stalling when it comes to delivering cheaper fares, consumer advocates say.
Airfares should fall to reflect plummeting oil and jet fuel prices but airlines are stalling when it comes to delivering cheaper fares, consumer advocates say.
Auckland councillor Dick Quax has been causing a stir online with flippant comments about public transport and the regular presence of police in an Auckland suburb.
Auckland's been judged the 10th most liveable city in the world. Today, we speak to experts and city leaders on how we can jump even higher on the list.
Motorists heading home or away today are being told to expect delays with several roadworks under way.
Auckland commuters got a preview into the city's next big rail project set to start next year.
Rush hour on the New York subway and space is at a premium. Yet despite the crush, some passengers - men, usually, it is alleged - want to take up more room than is entirely necessary...
Aucklanders face some tough choices on the costs and services of the Super City on their return from the festive season.
Police are vowing to trawl through CCTV footage for evidence against rampaging youths who brought Auckland's rail network to its knees on Saturday night.
Key Auckland transport projects - including some on which work has already started - face long delays unless new funding can be found from road tolls or higher rates.
Dozens of marauding youths brought Auckland trains to a halt last night as hundreds of people converged on Britomart to get home after Christmas in the Park.
Aucklanders wondering when they will become inhabitants of "the world's most liveable city" have suffered a triple-serving of key service meltdowns in one week.
Not long ago I wondered here whether we need more than one government in a country where the whole population is no larger than an average city in the world.
Len Brown hitched up his pants. Well, he thought, here we go. Here we go again. He surveyed the scene before him like Caesar in the senate of Rome.
California prosecutors sued Uber over the ride-booking company's driver background checks and other allegations.
How much does it cost to buy a clean background check in India's capital? Drivers for Uber say the equivalent of a $130 bribe.
The Auckland Council has voted to put back a start on the City Rail Link, after a 2015 start was considered too much of a stretch by the Auditor-General.
Auckland shouldn't throw money at projects that are just about providing a little bit of extra capacity at peak times but sit under-used the rest of the day, writes Matt Lowrie.
Auckland Mayor Len Brown's favourite transport project - the $2.4 billion underground City Rail Link - is being shunted back two years.
Driving the business from the board table is giving NZ Bus executive Shane McMahon a different perspective on his day job.
Hundreds of new homes will be developed on Housing Corporation land in some Auckland suburbs, including Avondale, New Lynn and South Auckland.
Auckland's web of bus and high-occupancy vehicle lanes is to be expanded, after years of zero growth.
If Auckland transport planners are seriously considering trams as a cheaper form of rail service to the airport, they should come to their senses.
The director of a bus company who was hit by a bus near has told an inquest into her death that moving buses out of central Wellington could create an increased risk to pedestrians.
An Uber executive has come under fire for saying they should hire researchers to dig up dirt on journalists who criticise the company.
A package of safety measures for central Wellington streets could reduce the risks to pedestrians following the death of jogger Venessa Green.
A Wellington bus company has been fined $22,000 and told to pay $3500 reparations to "frightened, scared and worried" people who became stuck in bus doors.