Drivers are being urged to be careful after two recent crashes involving cars skidding on black ice.

Ashburton Police are warning the public to take extreme care on the roads in the Canterbury region due to reports of black ice.

The police were very quick to take up defensive positions this week when it was revealed that officers in the Counties Manukau district had been told not to ticket unlicensed Maori drivers.

The Coroner has found the death of a tourist driver may have been caused by a combination of unclear signage and unfamiliarity with New Zealand road markings.

As a new Spaghetti Junction rises, contractors are also toiling on a slew of related motorway projects to add flesh to the long-awaited western ring route.

Government road builders in the thick of the country's largest transport upgrade are designing yet another project for Auckland's western ring route.

Yesterday's destructive waves are likely to become a more common occurrence, says a councillor from the worst-hit parts of Wellington.

Massive waves caused havoc on Wellington's south coast, sending boulders onto roads, despite fine and sunny weather in the region today.

Drivers may soon be able to use their mobile phones to ease frustrations caused by the apparent whims of traffic signals, if a research project by a Victoria University professor goes ahead.

Auckland's proposed harbour bridge Skypath has been portrayed to a planning hearing as a critical missing link in the city's cycling and walking network

One person died and eight were injured on the roads in a chaotic start to the holiday weekend.

A toddler critically injured when he ran into the path of a car on Auckland's Mt Eden Rd had his third birthday this week in a rehab centre.

Motorists are being warned to take care this Queen's Birthday weekend as holiday-makers hit the roads, winter draws in and 'Gypsy Day' stock moving takes place.

Huge waves and powerful winds have scattered debris and stopped traffic on coastal roads in central parts of the country today.

The tunnel boring machine Alice is now a quarter of the way into drilling the second motorway tunnel of the Waterview Connection.

The New Zealand Transport Agency is adding two lanes, plus a cycleway to a 9.5km stretch of the Southern Motorway between Manukau and Papakura.

Construction is due to resume at the weekend on the giant Waterview motorway interchange project after the discovery of faulty concrete forced it to a halt a fortnight ago.

A new 60ha business park in Silverdale north could mean people who live around the Millwater/Orewa area won't need to travel on clogged motorways to get to their jobs.

There are actually two sets of road rules, it would seem.

Investigations are being carried out into weak, faulty Firth concrete supplied to the $1.4b Waterview Connection.

Weak, substandard concrete has been delivered to 70 sites from an Auckland plant, says Firth owner Fletcher Building.

Faulty concrete has now been discovered in The University of Auckland's $200m city campus science redevelopment and expansion.

Council officers are backing a cycling and walking SkyPath attached to the Auckland Harbour Bridge, but it has to be grey.

Work on up to 35 residential and commercial projects will need to be redone after faulty concrete was supplied and used in building work.

NZ's biggest listed company has revealed how one of its businesses made faulty and weak concrete and sent it out to many building sites, including the Waterview project.

The cycle fund is already contributing to an $11m bikeway from Upper Queen St to Victoria St.

Auckland cyclists will soon be pedalling high above traffic-snarled Spaghetti Junction on their own bridge.