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Auckland's transport project
As a new Spaghetti Junction rises, contractors are also toiling on a slew of related motorway projects to add flesh to the long-awaited western ring route.
As a new Spaghetti Junction rises, contractors are also toiling on a slew of related motorway projects to add flesh to the long-awaited western ring route.
Finance Minister Bill English and Transport Minister Simon Bridges have written to Mayor Len Brown saying the Government is unwilling to consider motorway tolls at this time.
The tourist driver who caused the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Marris is appealing his jail sentence.
''Today Mr Cao has received his sentence, but it doesn't matter what it is, as nothing will bring our Ruby back,'' a statement from the couple said.
Education and bus company officials will meet in Auckland today after a police investigation into an incident in which children jumped off a moving school bus that wouldn't stop.
"She’s mistaken the stairs for the entrance. She was a bit shocked but then she just went shopping."
Custodians of bush and recreational areas near Auckland's Northcote Pt fear environmental degradation from a walking and cycling path across the harbour bridge.
Dangerous and distracted drivers will be the focus of a police sting over the next few months in a bid to reduce the number of crashes over winter.
Last night was chilly. MetService said it was probably the coldest night of the year for the country because a cold air mass followed a clear night.
Holidaymakers hoping to avoid a right royal pain on the roads this Queen's Birthday weekend are urged to plan ahead and watch out for black ice.
31 former state houses bought for the Waterview motorway project are being sold on the open market because Housing New Zealand no longer wants them.
More Uber drivers could soon be on the road after lobbying efforts that included a dinner with the Transport Minister hosted by a top United States diplomat.
The govt will put the financing and construction of the Puhoi-Warkworth Highway out to tender as a public private partnership.
The New Zealand Transport Agency is adding two lanes, plus a cycleway to a 9.5km stretch of the Southern Motorway between Manukau and Papakura.
A half-billion dollar bundle of projects to fix Auckland's transport woes was welcomed last night but also described as a quick-fix.
Intrusive traffic noise in the Auckland Botanic Gardens is feared to increase as a result of planned widening of the Southern Motorway from Manukau to Papakura.
There are actually two sets of road rules, it would seem.
New Zealand sales of new commercial vehicles hit a record for April amid strong demand from tradespeople and farmers.
There's something strange about Tom Short's little yellow Datsun 1200. It might be that it can clear a quarter mile in a lightning-fast 14 seconds.
Council property agents have been warned off "bullying" an elderly couple into a rush sale of their home for a new highway parallel to the Southern Motorway.
Why does a driver become a biker? Some can't afford cars, some don't have parks, some think they're saving the planet. For me it's a selfish health issue, writes Matt Heath.
A series of marches and events are expected across New Zealand to mark a global campaign aimed at saving the lives of children.
Artistic and computer wizardry has given insights into what children might have looked like today had they not been cruelly snatched in road crashes.
The annual road safety awareness drive starts tomorrow, and the emphasis this year will be on children, described by Associate Transport Minister Craig Foss as “our most vulnerable road users”.
Auckland Mayor Len Brown is proposing a 6.5 per cent rates increase today to spend more on transport.
New police red-light cameras with radar technology will go live in Auckland and Wellington starting Thursday.
Five deadly crashes in Mercer, New Plymouth, Rotorua, and in Whakatane claimed six lives over the long weekend.
What did Z Energy think it would achieve with another report dispelling the notion that petrol companies are quick to raise fuel prices but slow to drop them when oil prices fall?