The Velvet Revolution of November 1989 ended one-party rule. What Kolárovo did next says something about how it sees itself: having lost its ship mills, its fishing economy and eventually even its trains, it rebuilt the things that had made it. A working replica of a floating mill had already been built in 1980 and moored on the Little Danube; in the early 1990s the town added the covered wooden footbridge over the river — 86 metres of timber under a shingled roof with not one concrete pier in it, commonly called the longest all-wooden river bridge in Europe.Nežná revolúcia z novembra 1989 ukončila vládu jednej strany. Čo Kolárovo urobilo potom, hovorí čosi o tom, ako samo seba vníma: prišlo o lodné mlyny, o rybárske hospodárstvo aj napokon o vlaky, a tak si postavilo znova to, čo ho kedysi vytvorilo. Funkčnú repliku lodného mlyna postavili a zakotvili na Malom Dunaji už v roku 1980; začiatkom deväťdesiatych rokov k nej mesto pridalo krytý drevený most cez rieku — 86 metrov dreva pod šindľovou strechou, bez jediného betónového piliera, o ktorom sa bežne hovorí ako o najdlhšom celodrevenom riečnom moste v Európe.
