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Bob Jones: Spare us from road-clogging women
Women drivers possibly cost 1 per cent off our GNP, through causing massive delays in city traffic flows, writes Bob Jones. Nowhere in the world do people drive in the right-hand lane as women persistently do here,
Ask Phoebe: Options are limited for recycling plastic bags
City bins for reusables not the place for grocery or bread holders, writes Phoebe Falconer.
Surveys start for city rail link
Surveyors are plotting ground levels above Auckland's proposed new multi-billion dollar rail underground tunnel.
Students pay seatbelt price
The American driver of a van which crashed near Turangi, killing three students, had told his passengers to put their seatbelts on, a coroner found.
TV stars join anti-Bunnings fight
Actress Tandi Wright and Seven Sharp presenter Jesse Mulligan want to stop the Bunnings Warehouse Grey Lynn.
Brakes hit more in NZ than LA
Auckland drivers are justified for bemoaning the city's gridlocked roads - a study has found the traffic slows to a stop more often than notoriously congested Los Angeles.
Three schools in path of road plan
Exclusive King's College is one of three schools in the way of a route being considered for fast-tracking a $1 billion-plus freight-heavy road corridor through South Auckland.
Waterview tunnel chapter set for Alice in underland
Alice, the Waterview Connection's tunnel boring machine, is lined up at the mouth of her first Mt Roskill wall, ready to dig the country's biggest roading job.
Hundreds toil on rival bids for nation's biggest roading job
More than 300 people are working on two rival bids for the country's biggest new roading infrastructure contract, with documents due in early next month.
City carparks on market for $75k
Central Auckland carparks are on the market for as much as $75,000 - a price one expert says could prove a bit of a bargain in the long run.
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.
Editorial: Route more than holiday highway
The national Transport Agency's planning application for the Northern Motorway extension to Warkworth offers a good indication of its likely path.
Not just a 'holiday highway'
Aucklanders driving to beach homes east of Warkworth stand to cut almost 16 minutes off holiday weekend trips via a $760 million motorway extension.
Speed cops hit Auckland skiers
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.
Van driver apologises
The driver who pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of two motorcyclists believes he should not be the only one in court.
Icy-road technology a world first
Potentially life-saving technology, first trialled on Dunedin roads, is being installed throughout Otago in another world first.
Ask Phoebe: 'Merge like a zip' way to go at St Lukes off ramp
My husband and I are involved in a disagreement which we hope you can solve for us.
Bus almost crushed us, says driver
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.
Ask Phoebe: Road snarl ups causing park and ride problems
Getting out of Orakei carpark safely an issue during busy periods
Bus drivers pinged
Bus drivers are in the gun for using cellphones and flipping through paperwork while at the wheels of their 12- to 14-tonne vehicles.
Rise in stranded drivers as fuel bites
More Auckland drivers are calling for help after unsuccessfully trying to squeeze the last kilometre from an empty fuel tank.
Close calls and abuse for spy-on-a-bike
My 10 days as a cycle-commuting cameraman for the Herald captured incidents of dodgy driving.