Golden Gate Birthday Walk Backed
Plans to close the Golden Gate Bridge on the morning of May 24 so revelers celebrating the bridge’s 50th anniversary can walk across it were endorsed Monday by 30 law enforcement and transit agencies.
The new 4 1/2-hour “dawn walk” plan replaces one that would have closed the bridge for seven hours in midday. It was scuttled by bridge directors after Marin County residents and others raised an uproar over possible traffic jams.
Charlotte Mailliard, the San Francisco socialite who heads the celebration committee, said, “There are several ways to skin a cat; I guess there are several ways to close a bridge. Maybe it’s the same plan, it’s just that the sun will be in a different place in the sky.”
The bridge board is scheduled to vote on the new plan April 10.
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