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

Mark Hendry quit the taxi business because he lost so much money it eventually cost him his home.

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.

Auckland Transport's cost estimate for upgrading Dominion Rd has ballooned by 40 per cent to $66.3 million.

At some stage, the terminal should be shifted to a site more suited to the interests of those who use InterCity's service. SkyCity suggests that time is now, as it sets about the development of its $402m convention centre.

"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.

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.

Security is being boosted for the school holidays on Auckland's trains, amid concern about more attacks on rail staff.

Q: Are there any plans to adjust how traffic merges onto the Northern Motorway from the Wellington St on-ramp?

Rates relief has been suggested as one way of compensating central Auckland businesses for disruption from construction of a $2.86 billion underground railway.

Auckland Council is under fire from business groups to speed-up work and funding for an east-west road freight corridor between Mt Wellington and Onehunga.

After the furore over the change in aircraft flight paths over Auckland, I still have not seen any result, writes a reader.

Auckland rail patronage is at a record high, but transport officials are scratching their heads over a 16 per cent fall in ferry trips last month.

AT has started a campaign to sign up cardholders, but the miserable 10 per cent saving over the cash fare has hardly been a great success, writes Brian Rudman.

Aucklanders are being offered hope of cheaper public transport now introduction of the region's $100 million electronic ticketing scheme is complete.

A teenage boy was killed after pushing his girlfriend out of the path of an oncoming train in Marysville, California.

Lengthening a bus lane along a busy commuter exit from downtown Auckland is no substitute for a deferred $15.6 million bus station.

A freight train has hit a cow and derailed south of Masterton, cancelling services to Wellington this morning.

A bus driver was robbed of her cash box by a passenger in the Hutt Valley last night.