{"id":72854,"date":"2025-10-11T23:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/72854\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:27:07","slug":"simon-bridges-shuts-down-talk-of-future-auckland-mayoralty-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/72854\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Bridges shuts down talk of future Auckland mayoralty plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">As well as leading the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and enjoying living in Auckland with a young family, the former Minister of Transport also chairs NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA).<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Simon Bridges is enjoying life in Auckland as chief executive of the Chamber of Commerce. Photo \/ Dean Purcell\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Simon Bridges is enjoying life in Auckland as chief executive of the Chamber of Commerce. Photo \/ Dean Purcell<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Asked if he meant he had no plans \u201cat this stage\u201d, Bridges gave a cheeky \u201cit\u2019s good to talk to you\u201d and left it there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">He was full of praise for Brown\u2019s victory, saying it showed he had a record of achievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard to achieve things in local government, whether it\u2019s CCO [council-controlled organisations] reform, getting the port performing better, or even Browny\u2019s pool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Nick Smith, a friend and former colleague of Simon Bridges, has transitioned into local politics. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Nick Smith, a friend and former colleague of Simon Bridges, has transitioned into local politics. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">From a business perspective, Bridges was looking forward to seeing continued progress on infrastructure, cleaning up the city centre, keeping rates relatively low and ensuring a good business environment for Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">He also saw a need for Brown and the council to get the balance right with central Government, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere will always be a few sideshows, but we hope there will be a bit less of that and a bit more meaningful progress,\u201d Bridges said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as leading the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and enjoying living in Auckland with a young family,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,4282,21356,57344,7520,6097,2740,3273,13489,21942,3556,111,43,139,69,1118,4762,2171,312,57343,6037,14446,11227,1529,1530],"class_list":{"0":"post-72854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-boss","10":"tag-bridges","11":"tag-chamber","12":"tag-commerce","13":"tag-down","14":"tag-former","15":"tag-future","16":"tag-leader","17":"tag-mayoralty","18":"tag-national","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-of","24":"tag-party","25":"tag-plans","26":"tag-says","27":"tag-shuts","28":"tag-simon","29":"tag-stand","30":"tag-talk","31":"tag-three","32":"tag-years"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}