Golden Gate Bridge Cables Get 1st Paint Coat In Nearly 75 Years
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Crews are painting the main cables of the Golden Gate Bridge—giving them a fresh coat of the span's iconic "international orange" color for the first time after almost 75 years.
The project is expected to take up to four years to complete and will require tens of thousands of gallons of paint. Work on the outside layer of the cables began in May, but has been hampered by the summer fog.
Bridge painter Ronald Chatham told the Marin Independent Journal on Wednesday that crews have not been able to put a coat down for about two weeks because it's been too wet for the paint to stick.
