Holidaymakers hoping to avoid a right royal pain on the roads this Queen's Birthday weekend are urged to plan ahead and watch out for black ice.

Auckland Transport, which dished out more than $10 million in parking fines last year, wants the Government to let it come down more heavily on non-compliant motorists.

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.

Auckland Transport believes parking fines are no longer effective and calls for an increase to deter offenders.

More Uber drivers could soon be on the road after lobbying efforts that included a dinner with the Transport Minister hosted by a top United States diplomat.

31 former state houses bought for the Waterview motorway project are being sold on the open market because Housing New Zealand no longer wants them.

Drivers who drive through car spaces to the next lane, thus parking in the wrong direction in supermarket carparks.

A spokeswoman said yesterday police had taken a statement from the driver, and would speak to him again before making a decision.

Britomart users may soon have to jostle their way through crowded platforms to get on to backed-up rush-hour trains.

Auckland Airport chief executive Adrian Littlewood says his company is working hard to develop systems and technology to defer infrastructure investment.

A reader writes: Is it safe to eat the oysters growing in clumps in the Manukau Harbour?

Bus passengers are offered better weather protection and solar-powered lighting from a new range of shelters due for consideration today by Auckland Transport's board.

The tunnel boring machine Alice is now a quarter of the way into drilling the second motorway tunnel of the Waterview Connection.

Transport Minister Simon Bridges takes over as head of the International Transport Forum as the organisation tackles ways to boost global trade and tourism at its annual gathering.

The first pair of two-car units from Wellington's new trains arrived this morning by boat from Korea.

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.

KiwiRail is gaining $400 million, but youth organisation Generation Zero is disappointed no extra funds are on offer to get more Aucklanders on trains.

It is hoped that Parnell Station will be open for use by the end of the year.

The boss of the $850 million Transmission Gully project worked on one of Queensland's biggest motorway jobs before shifting here.

My first encounter with orange lines was at Pt Chevalier about six months ago.

A 9.9 per cent average rates rise for Auckland households from July is going down badly with residents and ratepayer groups.

With rates going up again to pay for Mayor Brown's vision Brian Rudman is a little nervous about being stuck with funding the cycling lobby's cross-harbour vision as well.

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.

Two Auckland toll road tunnels will be closed early next week as upgrades are made by the NZ Transport agency.

Intrusive traffic noise in the Auckland Botanic Gardens is feared to increase as a result of planned widening of the Southern Motorway from Manukau to Papakura.

A New Zealand politician has sparked the invention of a new word named in his “honour” following an online stoush about public transport.

Aucklanders facing a new transport rate are paying "far too much" to subsidise the city's trains.

At least four people have been killed in the crash of an Airbus A400M military plane in Spain during a training flight, the first fatal accident involving the new transport craft.