Police are vowing to trawl through CCTV footage for evidence against rampaging youths who brought Auckland's rail network to its knees on Saturday night.

Key Auckland transport projects - including some on which work has already started - face long delays unless new funding can be found from road tolls or higher rates.

Dozens of marauding youths brought Auckland trains to a halt last night as hundreds of people converged on Britomart to get home after Christmas in the Park.

Aucklanders wondering when they will become inhabitants of "the world's most liveable city" have suffered a triple-serving of key service meltdowns in one week.

Not long ago I wondered here whether we need more than one government in a country where the whole population is no larger than an average city in the world.

Len Brown hitched up his pants. Well, he thought, here we go. Here we go again. He surveyed the scene before him like Caesar in the senate of Rome.

California prosecutors sued Uber over the ride-booking company's driver background checks and other allegations.

How much does it cost to buy a clean background check in India's capital? Drivers for Uber say the equivalent of a $130 bribe.

The Auckland Council has voted to put back a start on the City Rail Link, after a 2015 start was considered too much of a stretch by the Auditor-General.

Auckland shouldn't throw money at projects that are just about providing a little bit of extra capacity at peak times but sit under-used the rest of the day, writes Matt Lowrie.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown's favourite transport project - the $2.4 billion underground City Rail Link - is being shunted back two years.

Driving the business from the board table is giving NZ Bus executive Shane McMahon a different perspective on his day job.

Hundreds of new homes will be developed on Housing Corporation land in some Auckland suburbs, including Avondale, New Lynn and South Auckland.

Auckland's web of bus and high-occupancy vehicle lanes is to be expanded, after years of zero growth.

If Auckland transport planners are seriously considering trams as a cheaper form of rail service to the airport, they should come to their senses.

The director of a bus company who was hit by a bus near has told an inquest into her death that moving buses out of central Wellington could create an increased risk to pedestrians.

A Wellington bus company has been fined $22,000 and told to pay $3500 reparations to "frightened, scared and worried" people who became stuck in bus doors.

The brother of a woman killed when she was struck by a bus in central Wellington says his family was "appalled" at the lack of pedestrian safety measures at the crash site.

Two men have been arrested after video images showing a South Auckland taxi driver being attacked and beaten with a bottle, all to evade a $53 fare, was made public.

A bus driver tearfully apologised to the family of a woman who was killed by the bus he was driving at an emotional coronial inquest today.

Auckland Transport is under pressure to safeguard a rail route from Onehunga to the airport before the NZ Transport Agency builds a $140 million motorway extension.

Government transport officials are urging their political masters to support an early start to Auckland's $2.4 billion underground rail project.

Auckland's $2.4 billion underground rail project may get a push-along from the Government if it follows advice from its Transport Agency.

Psychologist tells inquest for jogger hit by bus says there is no evidence to suggest pedestrians crossing behaviour unsafe along Wellington's Golden Mile bus route.

City Rail Link a game-changing piece of infrastructure that will reduce traffic, revitalise suburban town centres and unlock Auckland's potential.

Public fear around crippling rate increases is real. An expediential rise in the cost of growth associated with the proposed Unitary Plan is leaving Auckland panicked.

Main work on the $2.4 billion city rail link will be pushed out to 2020 unless the Government comes on board with early funding, say officials.