Spanning the Hudson River for the last 95 years, the George Washington Bridge is undergoing a major restoration

After 95 years, the George Washington Bridge is in the midst of a $2 billion makeover. The Port Authority calls it Restoring the George. Already finished, 592 vertical steel suspension ropes connected to the roadway were replaced at a cost of $450 million. The main cables were cleaned, there's new lighting, and the most recent project to be finished was this right here. This is the South Walk, a pedestrian-only walkway across the George Washington Bridge. of the bikers that like to cross the bridge they're supposed to use the north walk which was put into place two or three years ago i think that's beautiful i think that's needed i think it it'll give more people less stress when they're walking adrian perez walks the bridge from fort lee to work in washington heights a 25-minute walk he prefers over a potentially late bus i could always bet on myself to walk across you know versus betting on the buses however like like many walkers, sharing the narrow north walk with bikers can be stressful. Others enjoying the south walk for the very first time today are hopeful that bikers keep to their side of the bridge. I think I was maybe a hundred feet on the bridge when I was greeted with a bicycle coming this way and he was not stopped by the Port Authority police who was there. There is another project which today the Port Authority approved 117 million dollars for. That's work to secure the ceiling of an area leading to the lower level of the GWB on the Manhattan side. In two separate incidents, concrete fell on cars. Port Authority commissioners say salt and rain caused deterioration. We literally went and banged on every piece of concrete we could in that and identified these as things that we needed to move more quickly. That project is separate from the overall restoration, which entails 11 separate projects on the world's busiest bridge. In Fort Lee, I'm Chris Keating, News 12 New Jersey.