Painting the Forth Bridge to be a thing of the past – well, almost

Story from The Telegraph..

“Work on giving the Forth Bridge its last coat of paint for at least 20 to 30 years is being accelerated. Balfour Beatty, the engineering group, has promised to try to complete the most famous painting job in Britain by 2012 and finally consign the familiar bon mot “like painting the Forth Bridge” to history.”