Around 68,000 people a year, including tourists, pensioners, students, school children and Maltese families, cross over to this part of the coast, specifically to visit Fort Saint Angelo. Drivers use the car park below the fort when they visit the picturesque shore of Birgu.

Pilgrims who walk to Fort Saint Angelo as part of the Camino DeSantiago DeCompostela route also visit this site. Workers who work in the Fort, or who provide a service for marine works, also make use of this site on a daily basis.

They shared the same bridge up until a few weeks ago, but now, with the investment made by Infrastructure Malta, they will each have access to two new bridges: one for cars and one for pedestrians.

Infrastructure Malta invested around three million euro into the project to develop a pedestrian bridge and another one for vehicles that replaced the singular bridge that was there before, which was shared by all.

In June of last year, the old bridge was closed to vehicles after part of it collapsed. The original bridge was built by the British Services and designed to accommodate much less weight than it was lifting, due to the vehicles that were passing over it in recent years. Besides this, it had suffered numerous damages because of natural deterioration over time.

Once a decision was made to close the bridge to vehicles, Infrastructure Malta decided to build two new bridges instead of one; one for vehicles and the other for people to give safe accessibility to pedestrians in the area.

While taking on this project, Infrastructure Malta recognized the historical value of this site and maintained direct contact with the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, with this entity being involved from the start of the project and contributing to the objectives and design, while overseeing the ongoing work.