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A failed braking system led to his son’s death – it wasn’t the first, or the last

Today from The Detail: For years, a father has been fighting for Waka Kotahi to do more about the dangers of a vehicle braking system involved in his son's death. Now a coroner's report backs him up, but NZTA still disagrees.

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False economies: the evidence shows higher speed limits don’t make financial sense

Despite community resistance and legal push-back, the government isn’t slowing down on its plan to roll back speed limit reductions on many roads. In the process, it’s going against expert advice from transport officials and solid economic evidence showing the benefits of slower speeds.

The Conversation

How to bring back passenger trains

If we followed the International Energy Agency’s global study, we would need only invest about $700m a year – not a large sum relative to the total transport system, says Robert McLachlan

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Government denies petrol pump policy 'on the hoof'

The Transport Minister says officials had been working on how to provide Kiwis relief at the petrol pump for a relatively short amount of time, but denies it was just 24 hours.

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Peering into Transmission Gully’s environmental blind spot

An environmental criminologist tapes off Transmission Gully as a crime scene

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