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.

The speed limit on any road should be appropriate to its design and condition, not the subject of a default 100km/h setting.

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.

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

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

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 Grey District Council has refused to enter into a public debate about a plan to close a road near the Gloriavale Christian Community, as the issue heads to the Environment Court.

The Government remains sceptical about plans by Auckland Council to introduce a motorway toll or a fuel tax as a new congestion busting tool.

A small majority of Aucklanders support a big and expensive transport programme for the Super City, according to a new survey.

Auckland Council announced that revised plans for a Yachting New Zealand centre on Takapuna Beach reserve are supported by the majority of public submissions.

Plans for a high-performance sailing centre on a Takapuna Beach reserve in Auckland have drawn solid opposition from those trying to keep the site as a camping ground.

Opponents of a $470 million-plus highway through southern Auckland say engineers are ignoring potentially disastrous effects on a premier park.

This Easter weekend had the second lowest road toll on record and was the first with the new lower alcohol limits for drivers in effect.

Easter commuters are being urged to be patient and drive home safely, with the road toll on track to be close to the record low after one fatal crash over the long weekend.

Drivers don’t divert to alternative routes unless they can see the queue, even if they’ve already been warned of a blockage.

Traffic heading both north and south out of Auckland has slowed to a crawl in places, as holiday-makers head for their favourite Easter spots.