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Rail delays threaten big blowout
Auckland's underground railway threatens to cost more than $3.3 billion if construction has to wait until 2020 for government funding.
Auckland's underground railway threatens to cost more than $3.3 billion if construction has to wait until 2020 for government funding.
Brian Rudman writes: 'The Transport Agency pretends to embrace public transport as part of its overall remit, but its DNA remains 99 per cent road-builder.'
The national Transport Agency's planning application for the Northern Motorway extension to Warkworth offers a good indication of its likely path.
Aucklanders driving to beach homes east of Warkworth stand to cut almost 16 minutes off holiday weekend trips via a $760 million motorway extension.
Police caught more than 300 speeding motorists in a weekend blitz targeting Auckland skiers using a back road to travel to and from Mt Ruapehu.
The driver who pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of two motorcyclists believes he should not be the only one in court.
Potentially life-saving technology, first trialled on Dunedin roads, is being installed throughout Otago in another world first.
Bus drivers are facing more accusations of misbehaviour, including an Auckland woman who says her car was almost squashed when a coach forced it on to a motorway shoulder.
Getting out of Orakei carpark safely an issue during busy periods
Bus drivers are in the gun for using cellphones and flipping through paperwork while at the wheels of their 12- to 14-tonne vehicles.
More Auckland drivers are calling for help after unsuccessfully trying to squeeze the last kilometre from an empty fuel tank.
My 10 days as a cycle-commuting cameraman for the Herald captured incidents of dodgy driving.
Cycle cameras have been slammed as "provocative" when used by cyclists venting online video frustration at dangerous driving.
Thousands of people are visiting a Facebook page that details where police checkpoints and hidden speed cameras are located nationwide.
What are the rules governing burglar alarms that are unmonitored?
Government road-builders stand accused of undermining Auckland's public transport effort by closing bus priority lanes for the Transport Agency's $220 million upgrade.
Enjoy the wide open, uncongested streets while you can for one last day. On Monday the kids come back from their school holidays and the traffic snarl-ups will return.
Roads near Auckland's $1.4 billion Waterview motorway project will close late tonight to enable delivery of part of a giant tunnelling machine that has arrived from China.
Building park-and-ride facilities is the first transport priority for Auckland mayoral candidate John Palino, whose long-term solution is to build satellite centres where people can live, work and play.
The Government has rejected two proposals for getting Auckland road users to pay for an estimated $12 billion shortfall in funding for roading projects.
Charging for the use of some or all of the roads in the city would be unpalatable to everybody - at first. But it's the obvious answer.
Aucklanders face steep fuel tax and rates rises from 2015 unless the council can borrow against government permission to impose new road charges in future years.
Cyclists will line up this morning to ride the first stage of a $13.5 million off-road pedalling "super highway" through Auckland's Grafton Gully.
Drivers may be tolled at Auckland motorway exit ramps to ease pressure on ratepayers over a $12b transport funding gap.
Drivers across Auckland today voiced their contempt for "ridiculous" rising fuel costs.
Hikes in fuel prices have forced the cost of petrol to a record high - with two large chains upping the cost of 91-octane to $2.27 per litre today.