The deck section — essentially a stiffened steel box — provides a footway and separate cycleway, extending in a wide curve across the river. The deck is suspended on steel cables at 6m centres from the second parabolic steel arch. The arch and deck unite at each end, carried on groups of cast in situ large diameter piles, bored into the coal measures underlying the site. Structural glass canopies shelter both landing points and ship protection works, incorporating floating components, are also located there.