The daunting task of cleaning the main cables and repairing the vertical suspender ropes on the world's busiest vehicular bridge

摘要

A thorough overhaul of the civil engineering marvel that spans the Hudson River just north of New York Harbour is long overdue. Officials of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey say that comparable bridges normally have their wires replaced after 70 years or so. At 80, the George Washington is showing its age, and - after a 4.5 million dollars, two-year study - the PA in December decided that action could not be postponed.