Fresh calls are being made for safer cycleways in Auckland as the city’s roads struggle to meet the growing demand from bikers. Often cyclists are squeezed into narrow lanes alongside buses – and it’s enough to make some abandon their bikes altogether.  Struan Purdie reports.

Police are searching for a man who stole a Toyota RAV4 car during a violent confrontation with two men in Epsom last week. The two men, who had been out for dinner in Manukau Rd, returned to their car at 8.30pm, to discover the thief sitting in the driver’s seat having just started the engine. [...]

Rail commuters will have a much shorter walk to their office and new business will emerge as a result if the City Rail Link (CRL) is built, says Auckland Transport.  The proposed link will connect Britomart and Mt Eden stations via three underground terminals at Symonds St, Karangahape Rd and Wellesley St. Auckland Transport communications [...]

Despite the Auckland Council’s aims to reduce the city’s transport emissions by 40 per cent over three decades, the air on Queen Street is still “unbreathable”. An Auckland bus driver left his vehicle on Queen Street with the engine running for 13 long minutes last week. Ice-cream store Giapo chef Gianpaolo Grazioli caught footage of [...]

Students and commuters alike are facing increasingly long walks to find retailers willing to top up their HOP transport card, the transport payment initiative owned by Snapper. While commuters were once able to top up their bus passes at many dairies and convenience stores, the number in the CDB who are willing to provide the [...]

Record numbers of Aucklanders are getting out on their bikes, but the public perception of cycling as a dangerous activity is still holding people back. Auckland Transport statistics show a 6.83 per cent increase in cycle movements over the past year, with a total of 802,398 trips recorded. Chair of Cycle Action Auckland Barbara Cuthbert [...]

On one minute, off the next. The struggle between driver unions and NZ Bus to reach an agreement has been frustrating for many Aucklanders as they wait to see if they will have a bus service on Monday. NZ Bus hopes drivers will be happy with their new offer as Tramways and First unions go [...]

Thanks to Facebook, frustrated passengers of a North Shore-to-city bus service have successfully got some action out of Auckland Transport. More than 600 people have liked the Facebook page ‘881 – Why you no come?’, a page being used to share negative experiences of the North Star 881 bus service. The page received 400 likes [...]

Cyclists have always been the underdogs on Auckland roads, but they could now have the upper hand on one-way streets due to a new bylaw. The bylaw specifies that Auckland Transport has the power to allow cyclists to ride both ways on some one-way roads. This concept is called contra-flow, and would be put in [...]