[3] The bridge is formed with 2,650 tonnes of steel,[4] was expected to be completed by mid 2024,[5] at a cost of $160.2M,[6] though budgeted at $135M in 2020,[4] estimated at no more than $60M in 2017[7] and formerly at $40M.

[8] It includes bus lanes and cycle paths,[4] and carries the Peacocke to Pukete sewer line.

[15] The bridge was designed to minimise its impact on 54 rest sites of the critically endangered long-tailed bat (pekapeka-touroa), including 30 new roost boxes on trees, with metal bands above and below them to keep predators out, use of warm LED lighting, a shallow bridge profile and removal of vegetation below the bridge so they can fly under, creation of a tree canopy to keep them away from traffic and predator control to protect, bats, copper skinks, native birds and the new trees.

The bridge crosses the extension of Wairere Drive, to maintain the Te Awa link to Hamilton Gardens.

[8] Māori design is reflected in the bridge, with two 25-metre (82 ft) steel masts, representing a waharoa (gateway), and influenced by a taurapa (carved waka sternpost).