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Rants & Raves: Pay to wait
If a toll road is impacted with road works and there are delays incurred for road users, shouldn't the toll takers simply waive the toll?

Mobility scooters intended for footpath
Can you tell me if mobility scooters are permitted to drive on the roads like cars?

Councillors on AT board face the axe
Auckland Mayor Len Brown opposes a plan to stop councillors serving as board members on Auckland Transport.

Driver's warning after parking battle
A man who refused to pay a $65 "breach" notice from a parking site operator says motorists, who are receiving them for being as little as five minutes over, should fight too.

Councillors face board ban
EXCLUSIVE: Auckland bureaucrats have come up with a plan to dump councillors from sitting on the board of Auckland Transport.

What 9.5m Auckland rail trips look like
Data visualisation shows the aggregate travel patterns created by over 9.5 million rail trips made by passengers using HOP cards between July 2013 and June 2014.

Traffic fine defaulter owes $37,523
Almost $9 million in parking and traffic fines has gone unpaid in Auckland in the past year, and the worst offender owes nearly $38k.

Balloon crash, MH370 inspire 'Watch List'
Tragedies such as the Carterton balloon crash and MH370 have influenced the creation of a "Watch List" designed to highlight air, sea and rail safety concerns.

Changes follow Antarctica plane drama
Air Force has changed its procedures following a difficult landing in near white-out conditions in Antarctica with a plane low on fuel and carrying 130 people.

CCTV cameras mounted on lights
No, says Auckland Transport, they are not red light cameras. They are traffic management CCTV cameras.

Future Auckland: Health
In part four of the Herald series on how to make Auckland better, we look at the pros and cons of health-care in New Zealand's biggest city.

Air NZ sales process faces probe
Air New Zealand is being investigated over possible misleading or deceptive conduct in the way it sells insurance with air fares.

Future Auckland: A place to call home
In the third of our five-part Future Auckland series, we aim to stimulate debate.

Rants&Raves: Laneway luxury
Twenty or more minute queues for the women's loos at Laneway Festival in the blazing sun. Men could use larger portaloos, but women did not have that luxury.

Future Auckland: School to shop floor
Auckland is a great place - but it can be even better. In the second of our five-part Future Auckland series we aim to stimulate debate. Teuila Fuatai reports.

Future Auckland: How to get city moving
This week the Herald looks at what Auckland needs to make it an even better place to live. Today we focus on its transport woes, and how to solve them.

Editorial: Tram option deserves a serious look
If trams are found to be compatible with cars on big city roads, and will carry more people more quickly, then the Auckland Council, Govt and ratepayers must seriously consider them.

Tram plan: From isthmus to waterfront
Any new generation of Auckland trams would likely start from the waterfront and head up the Dominion Rd commuter spine via Queen St, says the city's transport head.

7.6% rates rise in Auckland draft plan
Household rates could rise by 7.6 per cent this year if the city adopts a motorway toll of $2 or a regional fuel tax to tackle the city's transport challenges.

Brian Rudman: Liveable Len could stop the chop
Just because pohutukawa trees prosper in Auckland's coastal setting is not a reason to treat them as a weed and hack them down when they get in the way of a road builder.

Light rail returns to the spotlight
Auckland could become a city of trams again, with light rail back on the drawing board to complement trains and buses.

Tree lovers vow to fight on
Tree campaigners are vowing to go to court if Auckland's roading authority presses on with plans to chop down six 80-year-old pohutukawa.

640 stung in police blitz
More than 640 drivers were stung with fines during a 24-hour, 84-checkpoint police road safety blitz in central Auckland yesterday.

Govt planning review to help Uber
Difficulties for the start-up of the Uber passenger service have prompted an official review of New Zealand's regulations.

Uber complaint prompts Govt review
A review of taxi regulations has been launched following a complaint from new industry player Uber.

Squeeze on driver post-crash
This is the miraculous moment a driver survived being crushed between two big rigs in a nightmare pileup on an icy freeway.

Win for firm that dug up carpark
A Court of Appeal win for a Christchurch company which dug up a carpark over a $300,000 payment reinforces the importance of clear communication in arrangements.