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London to Edinburgh with a twist: Is this the UK's best (but little-known) travel experience?
Experience two of the UK's best cites in a fresh and unexpected way.

‘Loathed’ rail crossings slated for removal to reap benefits of CRL
Govt to spend $200m on new bridges to help speed up Auckland journey times.

‘I wanted to piss off the police’: Arsonist reveals why he torched train station
Daniel Vale has previously been jailed for torching the office of former PM Sir John Key.

Logging train revival to help 'deteriorating' Napier-Taihape Rd
'After some pencil-sharpening, we’ve been able to get this agreement in place.'

The greening of New Zealand business
Large and small, businesses are not waiting to be told how to address climate change.

Editorial: Can Winston Peters really find a 'better' ferry solution by March?
Editorial: The Rail Minister has two months to better the plan Nicola Willis has devised.

Auckland rail shutdown begins: What you need to know
Auckland's railway lines will have no trains operating on them for the next 32 days.

Analysis: How Winston Peters regained control of Cook Strait ferries
Peters is back at the helm and going back to the drawing board.

Editorial: Rail Minister is never going to be railroaded
OPINION: Peters has long been a tough interview subject.

‘An announcement about an announcement’: Labour slams ferry delay
Chris Hipkins has accused the coalition of dithering on replacing the ferries.

Watch: Govt grilled after key questions on new ferries left unanswered
A cost blowout forced the cancellation of project started under the Labour Government.

Letters: Memo to bootcamp critics – progress requires trial and error
OPINION: 'Expecting a 100% performance rate from any new initiative ... is naive.'

D-day for Interislander, Government to reveal new Cook Strait ferries
The Government has promised the plan will be cheaper than the cancelled mega-ferries.

Eurostar is Europe’s worst-ranked rail operator – study
Eurostar ticket prices do not correlate with higher service quality, study says.

Fresh concerns about completion date of Auckland’s $5.5b City Rail Link
Alarm bells have already rung about cost and time blowouts.

'Surgical change': Transport Minister, mayor wield knife to reform Auckland Transport
Local Boards, not AT, will decide projects in their communities.

Council to 'take back control' of Auckland Transport's policy functions
The two Browns have announced a major shake-up to Auckland Transport's functions.

Simon Wilson: There's a job for Luxon if they make Kiwi version of The Office
OPINION: The Government celebrates getting things done but is that really what it's doing?

Telephone Rd to reopen next year after being closed since 2022
Transport Minister Simeon Brown shared the announcement yesterday.

Ombudsman investigating KiwiRail's refusal to release 'excessive' consultant cost
Finance Minister Nicola Willis says she awaits the investigation's outcome with interest.

Plan to renationalise UK railways gets green light
Labour has promised to fix the country’s ailing transport services.