The Govt has spent more than $600m acquiring properties to make way for its flagship Roads of National Significance programme, Transport Agency figures show.

Motorcyclists planning to make the most of New Zealand's summer weather are being encouraged to brush up on their driving skills through a government-subsidised training course.

Wellington bus passengers can expect some disruptions to their journeys today.

Simon Soulsby's car-pool passengers have taken to flashing three-finger salutes at officers after he received two $150 tickets for driving in a high-priority lane.

Petrol will drop to under $2 a litre at Gull stations ahead of the long weekend.

Phoebe Falconer answers your questions about Auckland.

An extra 58,000 motorists were caught speeding because of the lower-tolerance speed limit at holiday weekends in the past two years.

Cars will have to give way to cyclists while a busy central Auckland road is modified for the flagship Grafton Gully bikeway project.

Motorists wrongly ticketed in multi-occupancy vehicle lanes want Auckland Transport to use better detection tools such as thermal imaging.

My understanding is that vehicles in both feeder lanes must stay in the lane closest to them when turning, writes a reader.

'I put this down as a mayor terrified of the real public.' Questions are being raised about the level of security surrounding Auckland mayor Len Brown.

Rough sea conditions have caused more delays to Interislander's troubled Stena Alegra ferry.

Cyclists from an east Auckland school are kitting up for a flying return from the holidays, even though several were bowled over by a car last year.

A replacement ferry brought in by Interislander has broken down less than a week into service.

Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city, is planning to ban all cars from its centre over the next 20 years and put thousands of commuters on bikes.

South Auckland communities have been assured a potential new motorway, which they feared may cut through more than 100 homes and several schools, will give them a wide berth.

Editorial: Tragedies such as the cyclist run over by a truck on a busy Auckland intersection last week bring calls for at least two possible solutions.

Cycle deaths on Auckland's roads reinforce the need for faster action on critical transport projects, says the city's chamber of commerce.

An official Auckland Transport survey reveals the horrifying number of red-light runners at some of the city's busiest intersections - and most were cyclists.

Gruesome images of the mangled bike on which an Auckland man died under a truck will be followed by an advertising campaign designed to "humanise" cyclists.

"A hippopotamus would be faster." Auckland Transport is being accused of dragging the chain in its provision of facilities to make cycling safer.

Cycling campaigners fear more deaths or injuries in downtown Auckland unless an off-road bikeway being built through Grafton Gully is extended to the waterfront.

On Tuesday I arrived very early on the scene of a cycle versus truck fatality in Auckland, writes Lance Wiggs. The sight of a person lying motionless in the street with mangled bicycle in the background is chilling enough.

The donor who stumped up $240,000 to build a foreshore pathway past holidaymakers' homes has been accused of putting up the money to help preserve his own patch of paradise.

A truck driver did not know a cyclist had gone under the wheels of his truck until he was alerted by other motorists some 70 metres away, police say.

Tourism chief Martin Snedden is fighting construction of a concrete cycleway running past the family holiday home even though it is considered a boon for tourists.

With no meaningful public transport system and a ban on women drivers, getting to school in Saudi Arabia is a challenge beyond many students.