Last Saturday's traffic ordeal highlighted Auckland's vulnerability to complete and protracted gridlock, writes Chris de Freitas. A single crash can bring the core of the city's transport network to its knees.

Troubled Malaysia Airlines has picked the head of Irish flag carrier Aer Lingusas its future chief executive as the airline recovers from two disasters this year.

The state-owned enterprise has been trialling two vehicles and an electronic bike on selected Auckland routes as it considers overhauling home delivery practices.

Simon Bridges dropped into Team BMW in Newmarket recently for the launch of its new ibrand electric car.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown's favourite transport project - the $2.4 billion underground City Rail Link - is being shunted back two years.

It couldn't be better timing for Kiwis as standard-grade petrol nudges below $2 a litre for the first time in two and a half years.

Motorists bound for the airport will need to plan for delays as Auckland's Southwestern Motorway will be closed for works.

Driving the business from the board table is giving NZ Bus executive Shane McMahon a different perspective on his day job.

The driver licensing system will be reviewed to see if it can be modernised and made cheaper, it was announced today.

As we live near Cornwall Park, we were looking forward to the opening of the new cafeteria being built near the band rotunda off the Greenlane Rd entrance.

Hundreds of new homes will be developed on Housing Corporation land in some Auckland suburbs, including Avondale, New Lynn and South Auckland.

Alexandra Park's chief executive Dominique Dowding said apartments would be for sale from February and she predicted occupation of the Green Lane West Rd places by the end of 2016.

New laws around driver licences come into force today, tightening the rules around gaining a licence.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown is locking future ratepayers into paying at least $90 million a year for operational costs once trains begin using the City Rail Link some time from 2021.

Cash-hungry Auckland Council leaders are eyeing a proposal to replace the complex Dominion Rd interchange with traffic lights to free valuable land for housing and commercial development.

Six coffins carrying the remains of victims of downed Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 have been flown from Ukraine to the Netherlands for identification.

Racially charged protests in Ferguson are fuelling an exponential increase in gun sales among mainly white customers at one of the premier shooting ranges in the United States.

Inspired by your recent question regarding the One Tree Hill little train, I am wondering about a slightly bigger one, the Waitakere Tramline.

Auckland Transport is working with the Privacy Commissioner after "human error" resulted in hundreds of council carpark holders being emailed the private details of almost 550 other....

Auckland's web of bus and high-occupancy vehicle lanes is to be expanded, after years of zero growth.

Auckland Council staff are opposing a public referendum on whether to charge motorway tolls or raise fuel taxes and rates to fill a multibillion-dollar transport funding gap as allegedly too costly and confusing.

A motorist who hit a cyclist and left him for dead has been described by the victim as "the lowest of the low".

Kiwi holidaymakers are being offered a free ticket to ride this summer.

Motorists forked out more than $6.63 million in the past financial year after being snapped at the country's most lucrative speed camera sites.

If Auckland transport planners are seriously considering trams as a cheaper form of rail service to the airport, they should come to their senses.

Freshly shucked New Zealand oysters could soon be served on aircraft flying to China, following a partnership with Al Brown.

The director of a bus company who was hit by a bus near has told an inquest into her death that moving buses out of central Wellington could create an increased risk to pedestrians.