Dozens of disgruntled commuters are complaining to Auckland Transport each week about its troubled transition to a city-wide integrated ticketing system.

A summer crackdown on speeding which will lead to fines for drivers travelling more than 4km/h above the legal limit is strongly supported by the public.

The replacement for the stricken Interislander ferry Aratere has arrived in Wellington.

Motorists are being warned to take care on slippery roads today and leave plenty of time to get to destinations.

The busy period on the roads for holiday travellers in and out of Auckland is expected to start today, with 5,000 to 8,000 more vehicles on the road daily.

Ferry operator Fullers will change its ticketing system to stop the display of personal details of passengers.

Changes will give riders and pedestrians more dedicated space, writes Phoebe Falconer.

Protesters tread a fine line when seeking to achieve their goals. Activity that's out of proportion to their objective will work against them. Just ask hunger-striking taxi drivers.

Transport Agency says it may address SH16 signs when Western Ring Route is finally finished.

One man has been arrested following a knife point carjacking in New Plymouth.

Drivers who crash on open roads during the Christmas and New Year holidays are more likely to be injured than at other times of the year.

The propeller missing from the Cook Strait ferry Aratere has been recovered by a remote-controlled underwater vehicle this afternoon.

More trains and buses will be running in Auckland when new drinking laws begin next week.

One of New Zealand's pre-eminent writers has filed a court application to stop the taking of her ancestral land for a national expressway.

Disgruntled taxi drivers have begun a hunger strike and rally at Auckland International Airport today.

There will be changes on Auckland's Northwestern Motorway today that will impact drivers heading east towards the city.

Bulldozing 500 affordable homes to make way for a $1b freight corridor through South Auckland has been ruled a 'non-starter' by Auckland mayor Len Brown.

It was hard to believe we were whooshing through South Auckland at 112km/h between high-speed braking trials on the first electric train, writes Mathew Dearnaley.

Ninety years after Auckland's leaders began hankering after electric trains in 1923, the city is poised to join the world of modern rail transport.

Recently, the new traffic lights on the interchange at Lincoln Rd on the Northwestern Motorway were turned on. It's now taking up to 45 minutes to access the motorway from Universal Dr, compared to 15 minutes before.

A man who hit a jogger with his car, took her body and dumped it in a reserve 10km down the road, will spend at least the next 13 years behind bars.

All speed cameras across the country have been recalibrated with the new 4km/h speed tolerance as part of the police push to reduce summer road deaths.

Only once in all the times I've turned have I been given right of way.

Auckland bus drivers desperate for toilet breaks say over-zealous parking wardens are fining them for leaving their vehicles at bus stops while answering nature's call.

KiwiRail says it has found a temporary replacement for the Interislander ferry Aratere, which lost a propeller during a Cook Strait crossing earlier this month.

Len Brown wants his council to look more to public private partnership models to create new infrastructure, saying it could relieve the financial burden on ratepayers and taxpayers.