With the fascinating wooden structure of the Rotary Bridge, the Expo.02 cycle path and skating network, and thus the entire cycle path network in Switzerland, has experienced a significant increase in attractiveness and improvement.

The Rotary Bridge has multiple symbolic content:

Symbol of youth 
The preliminary project was designed by three students from the Swiss College of Woodworking as part of their final year project.

Symbol of recreational sport
The bridge is open to walkers, cyclists, skaters and, thanks to the wheelchair-accessible ramps, also to people with physical disabilities.

Symbol for Switzerland 
Connecting two language regions and a work of solidarity.

Symbol of sustainability
The bridge is made of wood, the only renewable resource in our country.

The 60.00 metre clear span and 250.00 metre long bridge over the Broye Canal - the link between Lake Neuchâtel and Lake Murten - near the Waadt/Fribourg/Bern cantonal triangle was built on the initiative of and with donations from the Rotary Clubs of Switzerland. 

Location
Broye Canal
Bas Vully & Ins

Opening
04.10.2001

Client
Swiss Cycling Foundation (New: SwitzerlandMobility Foundation) (Dr George Ganz). Berne

Partners
Rotary Clubs of Switzerland www.rotary.ch
Lignum - Swiss Timber Industry Conference www.lignum.ch

Project
Students of the Swiss College of Woodworking (SH-Holz), Biel-Bienne

Coordination procedure
Beat Kälin

Ecological coordination
Dr Roland Luder

Civil engineer
Martial Chabloz

Architect
Roland Gay

Geologist/geotechnical engineer
Richard Metzger

Surveyor
Charles-Henri Aeschlimann, Barbara Veljiji

Timber construction
JPF construction SA, Bulle www.jpf.ch

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