The Barking Bridge Project
The Barking Bridge project is a community project to transform two unloved footbridges over railway lines in Barking Town Centre. Used by thousands of schoolchildren and parents daily these bridges are ugly and unsafe with poor levels of accessibility, attracting anti-social behaviour, drug taking and defecation. Working with local residents, Street Space was funded to deliver a collaborative design process to develop ideas and test low cost interventions such as colour, lighting and greening to improve the bridges for everyone. This work is the first stage of a feasibility study leading to future funding bids for permanent bridge works in partnership with Network Rail. Read more about this project and its impact here.
“Being part of the Peto & Stride Bridges Project has been so exciting! It has been refreshiing and energising to meet other people the same heart for Barking. I have loved making a real tangible difference in my little community. With the last brush strokes on this project completed..there’s only one question… what’s the next project!?”
— Joy, Community member in Barking