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Ask Phoebe: Waikato Expressway due to be completed by 2019

Could you tell me the state of play with regard to the four-laning of SH1 to Cambridge?

Aucklanders face rising parking costs

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.

Petrol prices: How you'll travel

Motorists should brace themselves for petrol rising another three cents per litre, while drivers of light vehicles run on diesel will face about a 10 per cent rise.

Ask Phoebe: How to work out steepness of our streets

"Would you be so kind as to find out from NZTA what the percentage sign refers to on some of their steep hill gradient signs?", writes a reader.

Tech firm cuts truckies' fuel bills

Entrants in the annual EECA Awards being presented tomorrow can claim credit for energy savings equivalent to the annual power use of two Hamilton-sized cities.

Doubts over city rail link's early start

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.

NZ praised at global forum for road toll

New Zealand has been praised at a global forum for slashing its road toll last year, after the ignomy of edging up an international hit parade of carnage in 2012.

Police dismayed by unrestrained babies

A day after a baby died from her injuries after being thrown from her mother's lap in a crash, a woman was seen breast-feeding her child in the front seat of a moving vehicle.

Baby flung from car named

A woman has been spotted breastfeeding an unrestrained baby in a moving car, just one day after another unrestrained infant died from injuries suffered in a crash.

Worst passenger? Your partner

Many have suspected it for years, but now research has proved that driving with your other half sends your stress levels soaring.

Cyclists want focus on urban routes

Cyclists say major urban routes around Auckland should be the focus for the council to improve its "dangerous and inadequate" cycling infrastructure.

Street number display owners' responsibility

So many of our commercial buildings do not have street numbers that are visible. This is so frustrating in wasting time, causing more traffic jams, increased fuel consumption and pollution.

How much does that commute cost you?

Inner-city suburbs out of your reach? Maybe not. A new data-crunching tool helps renters to look at how affordable their living situation is when transport cost is factored in.

Ask Phoebe: Obscure your number plates and you risk a fine

Nothing left for trade creditors of Blacktop

Trade creditors owed $11.2 million from a collapsed Auckland roading company are not going to see any of their money back, according to the latest receivers' report.

Fare go: The meter is running

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.

Ask Phoebe: Road markings a cycle safety trial

There are some road markings in the shape of bicycle symbols that have appeared on the road surface on Seacliffe Ave and Hamana St in Devonport.

Confessions of an ex-cabbie

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