A year-long trial change in the landing approach for some flights to Auckland's airport will end today after months of residents complaining of increased noise.

Texting, reading magazines, eating and applying makeup are among the top 10 driver distractions, an AA Insurance survey has found.

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.

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.

Former Labour MP Chris Carter says he was lucky to escape possible death after a suicide car bomb exploded metres away from his Afghanistan home.

The American driver of a van which crashed near Turangi, killing three students, had told his passengers to put their seatbelts on, a coroner found.

Christchurch International Airport's target profits for the next two decades have been labelled "excessive" by the Commerce Commission.

The Serious Fraud Office has executed search warrants in its probe of people linked to Auckland Transport.

When the tunnel boring machine Alice has finished tunnelling the SH20 extensions in Waterview, what will happen to her?

Fatality sparks safety call, and experts warn that quieter trains will increase risks.

Train commuters in Wellington will face disruptions this morning with eight trains still off the rails.

A friend and I were chatting over coffee recently and watching the traffic roll by.

Len Brown has not built a single metre of bus lane in his first term as mayor of the Super City.

Auckland drivers are justified for bemoaning the city's gridlocked roads - a study has found the traffic slows to a stop more often than notoriously congested Los Angeles.

Auckland's roads may be notorious for peak-hour congestion, but Wellington drivers actually slow to a crawl more often, a study has found.

New Zealand's largest roading project will soon send a mechanical mega-mole underground to dig almost 5km of motorway tunnels between Owairaka and Waterview in Auckland.

When Broadway in Newmarket was given a makeover, the clock that used to be on the pedestrian crossing outside the Rialto Centre was removed.

KiwiRail chief executive Jim Quinn said engineering advice was the station was likely to be above the minimum 34 per cent of building standard.