By BURGESS, Dave ALICK SHAW was dumped from the political fast road at the last election but he is still making decisions that affect the region after his appointment to a new transport organisation.

By HUMPHREYS, Lyn MOTORISTS and truckies fear they will have no voice on regional transport issues under sweeping changes to transport legislation.

By CARPINTER, Bernard HAWKE'S BAY transport authorities have been told to focus less on roads and to lift the low rate of workers commuting by bus.

The Nelson-Marlborough region has been allocated $40 million to spend on transport projects from Land Transport New Zealand's $2.4 billion budget for 2007-2008.

By HANN, Arwen Motorists will have to give way to buses if a change to the road rules proposed by Environment Canterbury (ECan) gets the green light.