A Facebook page which alerts members to police checkpoints is encouraging drunk drivers to take their chances with all of our lives, police say.

A $19 million project to widen 2km of Auckland's Northern Motorway has been launched today, with construction set to begin next year.

Changes will give riders and pedestrians more dedicated space, writes Phoebe Falconer.

Distinctive new road markings are being rolled out in an attempt to prevent cycling deaths - and video cameras will be watching how people react to them.

Transport Agency says it may address SH16 signs when Western Ring Route is finally finished.

Drivers who crash on open roads during the Christmas and New Year holidays are more likely to be injured than at other times of the year.

One of New Zealand's pre-eminent writers has filed a court application to stop the taking of her ancestral land for a national expressway.

Drivers in Auckland City yesterday did not appear to be paying attention to the summer speed threshold, with five drivers pulled over in about 30 minutes.

Recently, the new traffic lights on the interchange at Lincoln Rd on the Northwestern Motorway were turned on. It's now taking up to 45 minutes to access the motorway from Universal Dr, compared to 15 minutes before.

Think you're good at judging your own sobriety before you drive? Think again. A new NZ study finds drivers are extremely poor judges of their own sobriety.

All speed cameras across the country have been recalibrated with the new 4km/h speed tolerance as part of the police push to reduce summer road deaths.

A mother who was driving in a high-occupancy vehicle lane with her two young children was shocked to get a $150 infringement notice.

Len Brown wants his council to look more to public private partnership models to create new infrastructure, saying it could relieve the financial burden on ratepayers and taxpayers.

Northland's road death toll has climbed to 20 after a crash claimed another life.

An enormous amount of work is going on at the foreshore near Onehunga, and I have read little about it.

The Govt has approved a fast-track consenting process for a $760m Auckland motorway that has yet to be given a start date.

Auckland Transport is acting like an Indonesian execution squad, refusing to give victims any prior warning of their appointed date with destiny, writes Brian Rudman.

The days of hailing a cab may soon be in the past thanks to a new taxi app that promises passengers can order their ride, watch it approach and pay using a smartphone.

The City of Sails is fast becoming the City of Snails, and is rising on a list of the world's most congested cities compiled by navigation firm TomTom.

New laws for child seats in cars come into effect today, but police will be taking a discretionary approach while parents get to grips with the rules.

Texting, reading magazines, eating and applying makeup are among the top 10 driver distractions, an AA Insurance survey has found.

A zero road toll this Labour weekend would break a 36-year record, but police say it's not just the number of fatalities they want to cut.

Let's not forget that over the past year, 77 per cent of Auckland's 69.23 million public transport trips were on buses, writes Brian Rudman.