Hop cards info sharing under fire
Auckland Transport is under fire for claiming a right to pass personal information about Hop card users to third parties unless specifically asked not to.
Auckland Transport is under fire for claiming a right to pass personal information about Hop card users to third parties unless specifically asked not to.
Auckland Transport refuses to say if it will keep giving passengers with only old purple Snapper Hop cards free trips on buses equipped with newer technology.
A financially troubled council body has splashed out about $41,500 on a party for 1700 staff and family at the Cloud.
Many Auckland bus passengers face a lucky dip today over which type of electronic Hop card will get them to work or classes.
Replacing a propeller which fell off an Interislander ferry during a Cook Strait crossing could take up to nine months, KiwiRail says.
Fog has caused delays and cancellations to flights in and out of Wellington Airport, while the rest of the country prepares for "a better looking weekend" and Auckland a "gorgeous" Saturday.
Morning commuters were delayed in Wellington today after a car rolled on Aotea Quay.
This is what Air New Zealand had to say about its Boeing 787 Dreamliner before it made its debut.
The City of Sails is fast becoming the City of Snails, and is rising on a list of the world's most congested cities compiled by navigation firm TomTom.
New drink limits are far from a harsh crackdown. It is a step that finds the Govt in tune with the level of drink-driving that most people here and abroad think acceptable.
A bus driver has been stood down amid reports he did two U-turns on a busy motorway in Wellington.
New laws for child seats in cars come into effect today, but police will be taking a discretionary approach while parents get to grips with the rules.
The Government is reviewing a voluntary code of conduct for wheel-clamping, which Labour and the Automobile Association want made mandatory, with a maximum $50 fee.
It's a frustration every public transport user knows - waiting for an overdue bus, only to have several turn up at once.
Paying $190 a month for a parking space did not exempt Jonathan Macdonald from finding his car clamped as he rushed to meet teachers at his son's school.
Brett Cleaver is furious that an evening out with his daughter was ruined by a wheel-clamper bent on recovering fines allegedly owed by a previous owner of his car.
Let's not forget that over the past year, 77 per cent of Auckland's 69.23 million public transport trips were on buses, writes Brian Rudman.
City's unemployment at lowest level since 2011 with average pay up to $1135 a week, writes Anne Gibson.
Poor transport remains Aucklanders' biggest bugbear, eclipsing the shortage of affordable housing.
Women drivers possibly cost 1 per cent off our GNP, through causing massive delays in city traffic flows, writes Bob Jones. Nowhere in the world do people drive in the right-hand lane as women persistently do here,
City bins for reusables not the place for grocery or bread holders, writes Phoebe Falconer.
Central Auckland bus passengers are having to carry two smartcards - both confusingly called Hop - to guarantee cash-free travel for the next few weeks.