[1][2][3] The bridge crosses the Teesdale Way cycle route, River Tees, and the A1035 Riverside Road.

Stockton Borough Council provided a brief for a 'design and build' competition to construct a pedestrian bridge across the River Tees.

[4] The 'design and build' competition was won by a team comprising Ove Arup and Birse Construction.

[6] The bridge was opened on 20 December 2000[1][9][10] by Dari Taylor, Member of Parliament for Stockton South, and the mayor of Stockton-on-Tees.

[4] The bridge has been criticised for both wobbling[11][12] and being too narrow to accommodate cyclists who are required to dismount and are barred from entering the Castlegate Centre in any case.