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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.

Green revolution in city's street signage

TV stars join anti-Bunnings fight

Actress Tandi Wright and <i>Seven Sharp</i> 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.

Auckland's giant dig

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.

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.

Tommy Parker: Working together we can build a better motorway

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.

Commuters face 3-year crawl

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.'

South Island tourist routes to reopen

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.