Police are urging all motorists to heed their "drive to survive" message over the Easter break.

Q: Are there any plans to adjust how traffic merges onto the Northern Motorway from the Wellington St on-ramp?

Transport planners were accused yesterday of trying to limit access to an 18.5-kilometre extension of Auckland's Northern Motorway to make it easier to toll drivers.

Warkworth's maddening turnoff to eastern beaches will be worsened by a $760 million motorway extension past the town, a retired senior engineer warned a board of inquiry yesterday.

Road safety messages urging drivers to take breaks have been contrasted to a lack of service facilities proposed for a 18.5-kilometre extension of Auckland's Northern Motorway.

Wendy's has gone to the High Court at Auckland after a development of a rival fast-food restaurant blocked an exit from one of the burger chain's Auckland stores.

Traffic will be delayed by the crash of a truck in Auckland, police say.

A South Auckland intersection that claimed 50 casualties in a decade has topped a list of the country's 100 most dangerous intersections.

Paris drastically reduced its smog problem by banning half of all private cars and motor-bikes and almost all trucks on Monday.

Four men have been arrested following a high-speed car chase across Auckland this afternoon.

Police are scrambling to rectify and reissue more than $600,000 in traffic fine notices that were sent to the wrong people.

Police have apologised after wrongly issuing more than 20,000 traffic tickets because of a computer glitch.

A 16km expressway north of Wellington has had resource consent granted by a Board of Inquiry.

North Shore targeted in transport crackdown.

A woman arrested for drink-driving with two small children in the car had one of the highest breath-alcohol levels recorded in New Zealand.

Wet weather, a serious crash and the post-Christmas rush combined to bring bumper-to-bumper congestion on long sections of highways.

Motorists are being warned to take care on slippery roads today and leave plenty of time to get to destinations.

The busy period on the roads for holiday travellers in and out of Auckland is expected to start today, with 5,000 to 8,000 more vehicles on the road daily.