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.

Roads up and down the country are moving relatively smoothly as holidaymakers head home following the Christmas and New Year break.

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.

The first drink-drivers sentenced under new legislation will be eligible to install an alcohol interlock system for their vehicles from today.

The Government has been accused of being a Christmas Scrooge and increasing petrol prices in order to protect its promise to get back into surplus in 2014-15.

Nabbing speeding drivers in Northland used to be a rather covert affair, but in a drive to make the region's roads safer a speed camera van is no longer incognito.

A new motorway is being constructed near Hamilton, coming into the city from the north; many kilometres are near completion.

A $140 million four-lane motorway officially opened in Christchurch today was a "remarkable achievement" given the city's earthquake damage and disruption, Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee said.

The Transport Minister and the mayor of Auckland have clashed over a report recommending plans for the city's transport network.

A report due out today on Auckland's transport is expected to warn of gridlock for the city if it continues to rely on existing roads.

Auckland transport politicians are backing a proposal to recreate beaches lost to North Shore's Shoal Bay when the harbour bridge was built in the 1950s.