New Hobsonville and Beach Haven ferry services have fuelled frustration among hundreds of southeast Auckland commuters about delays to a $12 million upgrade.

Auckland Council's chief planner says he wants the inner-city rail link completed by 2021, despite the Government saying there is a stronger case for building it almost a decade later.

I intend to go into Auckland using the Albany Park and Ride and taking the bus into the city.

David Ware, managing director of publicly listed mobile radio company TeamTalk, wrote an editorial in the latest company newsletter railing against cyclists.

Auckland Transport's parking wardens are enjoying views of Takapuna Beach from the upstairs balcony of a building which was gifted by North Shore citizens for a public library.

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Walkers and cyclists are jubilant at winning Auckland Council committee support yesterday for a harbour bridge pathway, but face another workout before a final council sign-off.

Many of us live alongside dusty unsealed roads, in many cases just a few kilometres from city suburbs.

Hundreds of homes are in the firing line of a new arterial road for South Auckland - of which the first section alone is costed at almost $250 million.

Employers are rejecting migrant job-seekers without cars as they have little faith in public transport delivering them to work on time, Auckland Transport has been told.

Between the Market Rd overbridge and Newmarket Viaduct, there is an area of land on the left of the motorway that has been left to go to seed.

Crossing the road is among the most dangerous of everyday activities - and police say even the slightest loss of concentration could have disastrous, if not fatal, results.

Politicians are upset that an Auckland Transport bylaw may ban mobile election hoardings and put restrictions on others.

Nearly half a million New Zealand drivers' licences are expired and thousands of motorists are apparently unaware they are breaking the law.

Older Aucklanders fear widespread social harm from cutting back their free public transport entitlement, including to organisations relying heavily on their volunteering efforts.

Auckland ferry operator Sealink says trains are gobbling up too much public money, depriving the two-harbour city of superior water transport.

As you go into the main driveway by the community centre, there are quite obvious yellow dotted lines painted on the driveway on the left-hand side by the kerb.

No one seems to doubt Auckland will need another harbour crossing to the North Shore within a generation.

Motor industry lobbyists say lives and jobs will be lost as a result of changes to the warrant-of-fitness system that will see six-monthly checks become annual inspections for cars registered after 2000.

Auckland Transport has quietly dropped a controversial feature of its $2.86 billion underground rail project.

Angry parents in a small coastal town claim changes to a school bus route will put children's lives at risk.

More than 300,000 infringements were recorded in Auckland last year, an average of nearly 35 an hour and netting on average $773,203 a month.

We are keen recyclers and have friends who are too. We have different views on what paper can be recycled.

Auckland's Queens Wharf is too small for the new generation of bigger cruise ships and may need a $10 million top-up from ratepayers.