The cost of installing a net to deter people from jumping to their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge has ballooned to $400 million.
Plans to install a suicide prevention net beneath the Golden Gate Bridge is years behind schedule and almost five times as expensive as originally planned. That's nearly five times more than originally estimated for the suicide prevention barrier. The project's initial prediction said it would cost $76 million to install the netting beneath the span that connects San Francisco withIn addition to the skyrocketing costs, the safety project is years behind schedule.
Suicide prevention has been a goal for years. Advocates say that the bridge has been the site of at least 1,800 deaths by suicide since 1937 when the Golden Gate Bridge opened, according to the
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