Auckland Transport has been slugging motorists with fines of $3 million a month for parking and other vehicle offences.

A man has been arrested for allegedly punching a woman while they were travelling into Wellington on a train this morning.

Auckland ratepayers are spending $13.1 million a year to pay for seven boards of directors, seven chief executives and seven executive teams who run much of the Super City.

A West Auckland MP says a new public transport zone plan is discriminatory, likening it to racially segregated "Alabama, 1955"

Burying a review of the pensioners' free bus pass in the middle of the Draft Auckland Regional Public Transport Plan was never going to succeed, writes Brian Rudman.

Auckland Transport is under political pressure to accelerate a roading link in Mangere to replace a walkway with a history of sex attacks.

Electronic payments card supplier Snapper says it will claim up to $20 million in costs from Auckland Transport.

Auckland commuters are under renewed threat of disruption after bus drivers voted today to hold all-day strikes every Monday for the next eight weeks.

Bus operators hold lives in their hands, work difficult shifts for little reward, but would prefer to avoid strike, Peter Calder writes in the first instalment of his new column.

Council transport chairman cites lack of competition for the high outlays.