ManaBus' acquisition of rival Naked Bus will add South Island routes the service and expand Souter's transport operations across the country.

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

People in many of Auckland's poorest suburbs will pay dearly for a transport and general rates package costed at $214 for the average household.

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.

There's something strange about Tom Short's little yellow Datsun 1200. It might be that it can clear a quarter mile in a lightning-fast 14 seconds.

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

New Zealand sales of new commercial vehicles hit a record for April amid strong demand from tradespeople and farmers.

Council property agents have been warned off "bullying" an elderly couple into a rush sale of their home for a new highway parallel to the Southern Motorway.

A reader writes: Can you tell me why an otherwise great sculpture on Dominion Rd has a horrible red barrier around it?

A series of marches and events are expected across New Zealand to mark a global campaign aimed at saving the lives of children.

Artistic and computer wizardry has given insights into what children might have looked like today had they not been cruelly snatched in road crashes.

The annual road safety awareness drive starts tomorrow, and the emphasis this year will be on children, described by Associate Transport Minister Craig Foss as “our most vulnerable road users”.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown is proposing a 6.5 per cent rates increase today to spend more on transport.

On April 1 (I kid you not) Auckland Council received an update on air-quality regulations which showed more work with the Government was needed.

New police red-light cameras with radar technology will go live in Auckland and Wellington starting Thursday.

Last week while passing the Howick and Eastern Buses depot in Botany I was somewhat concerned to see two of the buses had been repainted all over in blue and with large "Metro" logos....

KiwiRail is among short-listed contenders to run Auckland's metro trains once Transdev's $60 million-plus management contract expires next year.

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

New Zealand passports have made the top 20 most powerful passports in the world list, sneaking in at number 20.

A decline in the number of parents hiring car seats from Plunket for their newborns has prompted the child welfare charity to start phasing out the service.

Auckland Transport is accused of softening up rail commuters for slower trips on new electric trains by adding three minutes to its western line timetable.

A ban on cars from the summit of Mt Eden has been confirmed as likely by the end of this year.

Site enabling works on New Zealand's biggest new infrastructure project, Transmission Gully, begin this month.

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