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Confusion over truck ban plan
Labour's truck ban could cover 0.7 per cent or 7 per cent of New Zealand's motorways - depending on who you listen to.
Labour's truck ban could cover 0.7 per cent or 7 per cent of New Zealand's motorways - depending on who you listen to.
Police are urging all motorists to heed their "drive to survive" message over the Easter break.
Q: Are there any plans to adjust how traffic merges onto the Northern Motorway from the Wellington St on-ramp?
It's costing $1.4b and by 2017 should help give drivers from Manukau to Albany with an alternative to SH1 and the harbour bridge. So how's it going?
As many Kiwis prepare to head away for an Easter break, research shows motorists support the lower speed tolerance during holiday weekends - but are less accepting of it at other times.
New Labour Party transport policies have been met with a mix of praise and scepticism.
While paying a small fine at the local library for an overdue book, I started wondering - does the council keep figures on how much money in library fines it gets and, if so, what do they use the money for?
Trucking companies say they are being forced to import drivers from overseas because of a desperate shortage of Kiwis.
Plans for one of the country's most expensive transport projects - a $760m extension of Auckland's motorway network - will go under the microscope today.
A cyclist, a young pedestrian and a driver were killed and one person was seriously injured on the roads this weekend.
Police communications staff who incorrectly blamed a truck driver for causing a smash on the Southern Motorway have confirmed they never checked the crash file.
Evening peak-time traffic was diverted for more than two hours on Auckland's Northwestern Motorway yesterday after a truck leaked a 3km trail of paint.
Recently I got into an argument - well, let's call it a free and frank exchange of views - about sewage holding tanks on boats.
Police are launching a month-long blitz on red light runners on Auckland roads. After an eight-week Auckland Transport "red means stop" warning campaign, police have begun cracking down on drivers who still haven't got the message.
I wish to know if our 40km/h zone outside schools is at all times or only when school is in? Some places have an illuminated sign, others not. What about holidays and weekends?
Auckland's flagship $11 million Grafton Gully cycleway will require traffic restrictions from today as contractors prepare to tunnel under busy Wellesley St East.
His farm-registered SUV and makeshift lean-to with rudimentary kitchen shelves has occupied a prime corner of Auckland's waterfront for more than a year.
I know a lot of people put towies in the same "lower than a snake's underpants" category as parking wardens, politicians - and journalists - but I've never had a problem with towies.
A large truck broken down on State Highway 1 in Wellsford is blocking traffic heading north.
Who has right of way when two vehicles are both on side roads (facing each other), each stopped at give way signs, and each wants to turn right on to the motorway?
Government will introduce a "one-strike" policy for suspected drink-drivers who evade prosecution because medical staff cannot extract a blood sample.
Can the following be explained please? Westhaven Drive has speed bumps but now judder bars have been installed. Why so if speed bumps already exist?
The official description of an advanced stop box is an area in front of a general traffic lane on an approach to a signalled intersection.
It's one of the country's craziest intersections - a dreaded pinchpoint for traffic heading north of Auckland.
More logging trucks will be unleashed on to State Highway 1 between Auckland and the Far North from today because of a suspension of all Northland's freight trains.
Six people have died in accidents involving motor vehicles over the weekend, three of them motorcyclists.