New Zealand – or Aotearoa as it is known to the Maori – recently hosted a public consultation on whether to include te reo Maori on 94 types of road signs, including for place names, speed ...

Road signs help us to get where we are and to where we’re going, that much is obvious. But, at another level, road signs show us where we are and where we’re heading as a people and a culture.

Last week, media coverage in New Zealand was dominated by a contrived controversy over a proposal by the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) to produce new road signs in both English and Māori ...

The transport agency explained why the words in Maori on the suggested signs are placed above the English: “Given that te reo Māori is used less than English throughout Aotearoa New Zealand ...

New Zealand – or Aotearoa as it is known to the Maori – recently hosted a public consultation on whether to include te reo Maori on 94 types of road signs, including for place names, speed ...

Blue, green, white, red and yellow; New Zealand’s roads feature signs in many different colours but why are some brown? Sarah Pollok investigates. This deep dive into New Zealand’s brown ...

New Zealand's first ... New Zealand's first weather-activated road signs, on State Highway 29, are ready to go. There are 22 signs on a 12km stretch between Waikato and Bay of Plenty, ...

Concern over bilingual road signs in New Zealand is as much political as it is about safety – but the international evidence suggests there’s little to worry about.

New Zealand has ended public consultation on the installation of road signs written in both English and Te Reo Maori – the country’s indigenous language. A total of 94 signs would become ...

It was meant to be an inclusive gesture to New Zealand’s indigenous Maori community. But plans to introduce bilingual road signs featuring both the English and te reo Maori languages have ...