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Red Light Cameras May Go Nationwide
Red light cameras could become common place through the country as a result of a trial in Auckland. A three year pilot in Auckland’s CBD found it discouraged...
Leave Your Mark
You’ll be able to leave a permanent mark on new Newmarket Viaduct this Saturday. You can sign your name inside a huge 80-tonne segment of concrete at Mahuru Street...
High Tide Warning
Another of those high tide warnings from NZTA: The NZ Transport Agency advises Auckland drivers that exceptionally high tides are forecast for the Manukau and Waitemata...
Airport Rail Loop Gets Thumbs Up
A conventional rail loop connection from the airport through the northern corridor and southern corridor connecting to the existing passenger rail network at Puhinui...
Cars Popular For Nth Harbour Game
Almost 20,000 of the 27,000 who attended last night’s South Africa Namibia RWC game drove to the North Harbour Stadium. 7,460 used the special event buses...
How Auckland Will Pay For It
The grand draft Auckland Plan envisages new infrastructure such as a CBD Rail Link and harbour tunnel as essential – but once again comes the thorny issue...
Taming Auckland’s Landscape
Besides transport as a key to Auckland’s next 30 years, finally getting the urban and rural development right is essential after what the Auckland Plan, released...
Transmission Gully Moves Forward
Wellington’s Transmission Gully motorway project leaped forward today following the same fast track path of the Waterview tunnel. Environment Minister Nick Smith...
Party Central Extension Granted
UPDATE Rugby World Cup Minister Murray McCully has granted urgent approval under the RWC Empowering Act 2010 to the extension of the Queens Wharf fanzone, festival...
Cars The Winner On Night
The Veolia head emerged today to tell Aucklanders to virtually consider taking their car to this weekend’s Eden Park RWC match. And neighbouring Westfield...
Puhoi Cost Benefit Still Unknown
The Transport Minister says it’s too early to confirm exactly what the final cost-benefit ratio for the Puhoi to Wellsford highway will be. Steven Joyce...
The New LED Highway Lights
A bank of 130 new high-tech lights were switched on tonight along a rural state highway in Auckland. It’s NZTA’s trial testing of a new generation of...
Auckland’s Worst Road Dangers
3pm to 6pm is the most dangerous time for pedestrians in Auckland. 40 years ago 42% of Auckland kids walked to school. Now it is only 25%. Cyclists are involved...
Urgent Review After RWC Train Disaster
3,30am Update Auckland Transport early this morning revealed it is seeking an urgent review of the operational performance of the rail network of the train operator...
Tourist Drivers Mis-Behave
Foreign tourists here for the RWC are learning the hard way about our road rules. A German visitor in New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup has found himself with...
Today’s Trains, Buses, Ferry RWC Arrangements, Cloud Programme
Here’s trains, buses, ferry and road information for the Rugby World Cup 2011 Opening ceremony at Eden Park today Friday and for getting around Auckland. For...
Steven Moans About Transport Blogs
Transport Minister Steven Joyce had a go at “left-wing transport blogs” this afternoon in parliament when being questioned over why he did not go along...
New Highway Lights Coming
A bank of 130 new high-tech lights will glow into action for this first time this Monday night along a rural state highway in Auckland’s when the NZ Transport...
One Bird That Flew Before RWC
I’ve lost count of the number of times I have written over the last few years about a project that will be “ready in time for the Rugby World Cup 2011.” We...
Teen Drivers -It’s Parents Fault!
Too many Kiwi parents are happy to turn their teens loose on the road without enough supervised driving practice, according to NZTA which released a survey indicating...
Army Of Tow Trucks Poised Near Bridge
An army of tow trucks will be the grunt behind NZTA’s Rugby World Cup traffic plans. Heavy and light tow trucks will be part of a Special Incident Response unit...
New Car Sales Up
Despite the recession, people are still buying new cars but not motorbikes. The Motor Trade Association says Augusts’ new vehicle market continued to defy the...
36 Hurt in Bus vs Logging Truck Accident
Eastern Bay of Plenty Police tonight confirmed that 36 people are receiving medical treatment in Rotorua, Tauranga and Whakatane Hospitals following the collision...
Kamo Bypass Opens
Kamo Bypass Stage 2 on State Highway 1 in Whangarei was officially opened today. The bypass cost $25m, including property acquisitions. It runs north from the...
Pay By Plate Machines Gone! Update
How bizarre. Now you see them now you don’t! Something strange has happened with those controversial new pay and display machines at Wynyard Quarter’s...
