Police Minister Judith Collins has backed the commissioner's plan to use specialist traffic officers to issue speeding tickets.

New specialist traffic officers will be used to issue speeding tickets, freeing police to concentrate on fighting crime.

A driver will face charges after a group of cyclists were struck by a car on Auckland's waterfront a month ago.

If New Zealanders increased their cycling to the modest levels of the 1980s, they would burn off annually the amount of energy in 40 million cans of Coke.

For the first five months of operation of the Northern Gateway Toll Road, it cost - on average - $1.29 in transaction costs to collect each $2 car toll.