An iconic steel bridge blocking passage to the sea for a superyacht built for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is splitting sentiments along Rotterdam's windy quays, with opinions swinging between pride and dismay. At the foot of the Koningshaven Bridge, barge workers were scattering Friday to dodge the attention of the world's media, with the historic landmark at the centre of the saga about the billionaire and his boat. The steel-girdered bridge, known to locals as "De Hef" (The Lift) is the last obstacle between Bezos' yacht, built at a cost of €430 million at an upstream shipyard and the North Sea. With a height of 46 metres the centre part of the bridge needs to be removed to allow the mammoth three-masted yacht to pass, despite city council promises after major renovations ended in 2017 that it will never again be taken apart. Locals have mixed feelings about the plan. Some see it as the excesses of wealth, while others say the yacht should be a source of pride for a city with a deep-rooted history of shipbuilding. "I think it's a bit of a shame to dismantle the whole bridge just for some person's private property to pass through it," said "Ice", a 34-year-old web...
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