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Opinion – Today, Auckland Transport and KiwiRail have announced the Rail Network Rebuild. Auckland’s entire railway network will be closed in stages and rebuilt

Auckland rail commuters are facing their greatest disruption ever, with a series of line closures extending out more than year as a new round of track upgrade w

Opinion – What does New Zealand's main cities have in common with Toronto, a city with some great potential, and one of the best cities in Canada. But it ha

While Wellington’s mayoral candidates have been enduring a rugged schedule of meetings to convince locals they are the right person for the job, the schedule fo

The Dunedin City Council is calling for the return of passenger rail in the south. The Southerner express service ran between Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercar

The Dunedin City Council is pushing for inter-regional trains to connect Dunedin with other cities, and to have suburban trains arriving and departing from the

At the end of this year’s Burning Man, nearly 80,000 people staggered out of a carefully constructed utopia into the harsh reality of modern American life. They

Imagine being in Vienna last week, with all the travel writers and railway buffs invited there to see a new generation of night trains for Europe. You bet I wou

All across Aotearoa New Zealand, the problem is the same: public transport services don’t run often enough. Despite much improvement even Auckland’s bus frequen