The bridge was built during a trend to build wooden apartment houses here in Sweden, and probably all over Scandinavia.
This fad has now passed and there have been several news stories about what a bad idea it was. I guess they were trying to get back to using more natural materials.
That's true, I had missed how popular they had become. My brother briefly lived in a wooden apartment building around 2017 and after they moved out I noticed a few criticism of the new wooden trend. Then I just lost track of it.
The trend goes back to 2014 even, so it wouldn't surprise me if this wooden bridge built in 2012 was part of that whole wave.
This fad has now passed and there have been several news stories about what a bad idea it was. I guess they were trying to get back to using more natural materials.