
Public transport edging out the car
Aucklanders are making the shift from driving to work to taking public transport.
Aucklanders are making the shift from driving to work to taking public transport.
As Auckland prepares to cram in up to a million more residents over the next 30 years, parking fees and time limits may spread. Are tighter parking restrictions going to help Auckland?
Auckland Council is suggesting a comprehensive shake up for parking in the city, which could mean higher costs to park your car and fewer places you can.
A major shift is underway on America's roadways. Driving strangers once paid terribly but can now bag an UberX driver more than $90K a year.
A report for Auckland Council has cast doubt on the targets set by the Government to make an early start on the $2.86 billion city rail link.
Planning is under way to slash $2.8 billion of new spending at Auckland Council to control soaring debt and rates while pushing ahead with the $2.86 billion City Rail Link.
If you want to know how a city works, ask a taxi driver. Just don't get them started on the taxi industry. Getting around public transport-deprived Auckland by taxi ranks up there with severely congested world capitals like Berlin and London.
Taxis in Wellington are the fourth most expensive in the world and Auckland cabs are 10th most expensive, a study says.
If only "skinny" Auckland could fatten up, NZ would be much better off, writes Bernard Hickey. I'm talking about Auckland's population and how it organises itself.
Four Herald staff caught cabs from Auckland Airport's international terminal to SkyCity yesterday, so we could compare their routes and what they were charged.
Two taxi companies that bid for sought-after contracts to work from Auckland airport have had the agreements terminated because they were unable to meet payments.
A local taxi-booking smartphone app is the latest service to offer a fixed rate for Auckland airport passengers.
Mark Hendry quit the taxi business because he lost so much money it eventually cost him his home.
A taxi company operating from Auckland Airport has introduced fixed-fare rates to the city and North Shore after Herald stories about some drivers overcharging passengers
Auckland Airport says it wants a fixed taxi fare price for a trip into the city to stop exorbitant fares - but it can't take any action until contracts expire in 2016.
Editorial: Taxis at Auckland Airport are the front line of tourism - and few first impressions can be worse than a taxi rip-off.
"I'm not asking for a flash hotel reception room, but is it too much to expect a shelter that actually sheltered?", writes Brian Rudman. "Would it be so hard, at each bus stop, to have a large route map indicating where each bus went?"
SkyCity Entertainment Group wants Auckland's InterCity Coachlines station out of its casino headquarters.
An Auckland student was slapped with a parking ticket while he waited for a mechanic to come and fix his car - despite leaving a note explaining his predicament.
Auckland's gleaming new electric trains launched into business at 5.48am today - and quickly experienced delays.
Hundreds of invited guests have gathered at Britomart this morning to board the first electric train from the city.
Thousands of train enthusiasts will ride into Auckland transport history when passenger-carrying electric trains roll along the city's rail network for the first time.
One remembrance encapsulates just how much Auckland is due the electric train service that will finally roll out on the Onehunga line on Monday. It is that of Terry Scott, the managing director of Transdev, Auckland's rail operator.
New electric trains could become a quiet, fast-moving hazard for the unwary when they start running in Auckland on Monday.