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Traffic in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, is defined by various factors, among them the shape of the Auckland isthmus (with its large lengths of coastline and assorted traffic chokepoints, and thus often long distances for land transport), the suburban character of much of the Auckland area and the large car-ownership ratio of New Zealanders.
These factors have resulted in a mostly motor vehicle-based transport system, which uses several major Auckland motorways as its main arteries (due to the Auckland geography of the isthmus, there are almost no ring routes). Public transport in Auckland is relatively low in importance, though major efforts are underway to change this, partly because Auckland Traffic congestion is very substantial and authorities have agreed that further road projects alone will not be sufficient to combat it. Experts in urban planning and traffic transport policy have also criticised how unfriendly Auckland is for pedestrians and cyclists, this is a major factor in Auckland’s traffic problems.
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