This is a bridgehouse. You can see it better in the next picture.
The sign sais: "de brug wordt in combinatie bediend".
That means they’re operating the bridge from another location with a remote control.
They have camera’s here so they know when a ship is coming.
A few years ago each bridge still had its own bridgehuman.
One of them used to sit right here where the sign is now. But that became too expensive.
So now a bridgehuman sits somewhere at a central location in front of a row of monitor screens,
and he operates all bridges from there.
But last year the bridgehuman made a mistake. He opened the wrong bridge.
With a car still on that bridge!
The driver paniced, got out of the car, and ran away in terror.
He saw the bridge go up, and he saw how his car rolled back and crashed.
This was later called "a human mistake".
Today we have many thousands of unemployed humans in our country.
And bridgehuman is not a bad job.
So uh, does it take a dog to come up with a suggestion to prevent further human mistakes…?