Jeff Bezos’s Yacht to Force Dismantling of 130-Foot High Dutch Bridge

I read somewhere yesterday that the city council approved the plan. For the shipbuilder to build the ship, it would need the city council approval dues to sizing concerns. And somehow the city council approved it, even the council is aware of dismantling the bridge temporary. So I am not sure whose fault for allowing this. So it seems that it is the city council that approved this plan. So the investigation should be looking into those council for allowing this to happen in the first place.

I am still looking for a better article but yeah bloomberg is trying to make a controversy out of nothing.

The two options are dismantle the masts for passage under the bridge(it appears a poor design to have a sailing ship with a mast that can not easily be repaired) or dismantle and reassemble the bridge and you can bet that Bezos is paying the city of Rotterdam to preform this passage action.

But as you can tell from the fervor of accusations here "Jeff Bezos pays the city of Rotterdam to temporarily dismantle the De Hef bridge for passage of his new superyacht" does not make a good headline.

edit: here is a better article.

https://observer.com/2022/02/jeff-bezos-dismantle-dutch-brid...

The bridge has been given a special status and an agreement was made not to dismantle it any more because each time they do that they risk damage to the structure. Shipbuilders are well aware of this but they must have figured that if they just build the boat that the rules will be bent.

> Things like new ships tend to get bigger and bigger as time passes.

That isn't a law of nature. The shipyards could have chosen not to build a ship too tall to pass under the bridge. We have regulations on the size of semi trucks rather than expect every highway overpass to be dismantled to make way for arbitrarily large cargo, there is no reason this shipyard or the Dutch government should simply put up their hands, rather than make them build a shorter craft, or dismantle the mast, or something.

Did you get it?

Before I reached the end of the sentence I was imagining the solution to be some more exotic and nimble aircraft. Or maybe a deployable helipad. I just wasn't thinking with enough excess.

Not everyone places money above all other concerns.

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Just delete cookies for the site in question. Poof. Paywall gone. Seems to work on every “first 3 articles free” paywall I’ve seen.

One would think so. Presumably they aren't going to scuttle the ship if a mast breaks, but remove and replace it.

Do you think he doesn’t know, or do you think he doesn’t care?

The simpler explanation maybe that Bezos actually _is_ an insensitive jerk who doesn't care how his actions affect people or what they think.

This isn’t a faux pas, this is a hit piece. Any halfway intelligent person would be able to tell the difference between the two.

The bridge was designed to do this, this is something that the builders intended. The previous bridge on this spot was actually replaced with this one because the previous one couldn’t accommodate the local shipbuilding industry.