Between the Market Rd overbridge and Newmarket Viaduct, there is an area of land on the left of the motorway that has been left to go to seed.

Nearly half a million New Zealand drivers' licences are expired and thousands of motorists are apparently unaware they are breaking the law.

Kiwi motorists are among the most likely to die on roads, despite having one of the more frequent road-testing regimes in the world, reports show.

Most boy racers seem to be learning their lesson, with only 127 convictions for illegal street racing being racked up by repeat offenders over the past three years.

No one seems to doubt Auckland will need another harbour crossing to the North Shore within a generation.

Auckland Transport has quietly dropped a controversial feature of its $2.86 billion underground rail project.

Motor industry lobbyists say lives and jobs will be lost as a result of changes to the warrant-of-fitness system that will see six-monthly checks become annual inspections for cars registered after 2000.

The number of people dobbing in dodgy drivers has decreased since cellphone use while driving was banned three years ago.

North Shore leaders will this year ramp up calls for a new Waitemata Harbour traffic crossing, even though the Transport Agency does not believe one will be needed before 2030.

Napier's central Intercity bus terminal is being described as shambolic, chaotic, an embarrassment, a nightmare and a disgrace.

A study for Auckland Transport has calculated the "social cost" of cycle crashes for the region's biking routes.

Dozens of drivers have been ticketed by police after they were snapped on the wrong side of the road on busy South Island tourist route the Devil's Staircase near Queenstown.

Two clip-on lanes of the Auckland Harbour Bridge have reopened following the completion of maintenance work that had closed them since Boxing Day.

Who is your driver tonight? That's the question police want all New Year partygoers to consider - before the celebrations begin.

Three men have been taken to hospital after a car rolled into the sea in Nelson.

We demand and expect our transport systems to to get us where we want, when we want to be there, and as fast as possible. We are, however, human beings.

Removing roadblocks to allow for decisive action on Auckland's critically important economic growth agenda is emerging as the top issue in early 2013.

Staff at TV3 are in grief over the loss of a popular colleague and young mother, who was killed in a car crash that also seriously injured her two young daughters.

If the world's fastest mammal can't be bothered going fast over the Christmas holidays then neither should you. That's the message from police and keepers at Canterbury's Orana Wildlife Park.

A week-long police crackdown on cellphone driving offences has seen a surge in the issuing of tickets. Police dished out 790 tickets nationally during the seven-day blitz last month, pushing the November total to 1736. October's total was 1156.