Fast track: Auckland rail lines could be ready in 2024
National is threatening to scupper two new rail lines if it's in power after 2020.
National is threatening to scupper two new rail lines if it's in power after 2020.
Australasia's biggest tram project in dispute
NZ Super Fund could follow Australian lead in terms of investing in infrastructure.
A 21-year-old Auckland apartment block is being demolished for the rail link
What's the best choice for the quickest ride to the office?
Unfinished waka recovered during excavation work significant, says minister Kelvin Davis.
National leader Simon Bridges gave his first speech on the economy this morning.
NZ's growth and productivity cannot continue to be held to ransom by a gridlocked city.
Penlink will run through Stillwater to join the motorway at Dairy Flat, taking pressure off the heavily congested arterial route through Silverdale. Twyford told the Herald the new Government will allocate $200 million to get the road built within the next 10 years.
Penlink is a proposed alternative route between the Whangaparaoa Peninsula and State Highway 1 at Redvale. Source: Auckland Transport
Lucas Arthur is unhappy about $65 "parking breach notices" handed to Uber and taxi drivers dropping off passengers at Princess Wharf. / Doug Sherring
Commuters were being warned to expect delays.
"Target of zero deaths is audacious, and it's also been successful," Health Minister says.
OPINION: Transport plans are no surprise but levy to pay for them is a hard sell.
COMMENT: Govt's new transport policy has generated an awful lot of nonsensical comment.
A police scene investigation should not close a main road for 12 hours.
Figures reveal 9 per cent of fatal crashes are linked to some sort of vehicle fault.
COMMENT: This Government seems to hate cars and they hate people in cars.
COMMENT: Congestion pricing, not fuel tax, is the way forward for Auckland.
New Government plans to bet big on public transport.
Three-letter word mentioned by Jacinda Ardern that always raises the hackles - tax.
Forget "range anxiety". It's the threat to macho values keeping some dads away from EVs.
Petrol tax review is just "routine", Jacinda Ardern says.
Comment: Driving 100km/h is not the issue. Target the issue. Don't punish the rest of us.
The government is trading in motorways for rail and safety measures - at a cost.
April 2018: PM Jacinda Ardern and Hon Phil Twyford discuss the government's draft 10-year land transport plan, focusing on road safety, congestion reduction and public transport access.
COMMENT: New Zealand is full of horn-riding tanty throwers, writes Matt Heath.
Potential bidders emerge for new Auckland tram system.
The single occupant of the car had sustained critical injuries in the crash.
Police attended the incident on Alfriston Rd, in Manurewa, around 4.20pm.