The festive season is a time of excess. But as the country’s top traffic officer Paula Rose tells Alan Perrott, there is little cheer in counting its cost.

Paris will become the first metropolitan area in the world to experiment with an extensive system of self-service hire cars.

Speeds of hundreds of kilometres an hour now common on rail network.

Almost a third of Auckland drivers believe traffic congestion harms their health and performance at work or in class.

Police have blocked off an inner-city Auckland street after a suspicious substance was found in the carpark of a building that houses the US Consular General and other diplomatic offices.

A driver ran from his car sobbing and yelling: "I checked the road, I checked and it was clear," witnesses say.