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.

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,

City bins for reusables not the place for grocery or bread holders, writes Phoebe Falconer.

Surveyors are plotting ground levels above Auckland's proposed new multi-billion dollar rail underground tunnel.

Actress Tandi Wright and Seven Sharp presenter Jesse Mulligan want to stop the Bunnings Warehouse Grey Lynn.

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.

New Zealand's largest roading project will soon send a mechanical mega-mole underground to dig almost 5km of motorway tunnels between Owairaka and Waterview in Auckland.

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.

If you're driving at night with your headlights on high beam, when must you dip them? Don't know the answer? You're not alone.

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.

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.

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