The once-controversial project is now a case study in suicide prevention, growing in size and lending its lessons to other barrier-building campaigns around the U.S., Canada and England.
A suicide deterrent net is seen below the roadway on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. The barrier at the bridge is near completion more than a decade after officials approved it. Since completion of a steel net under the Golden Gate Bridge in January, reported suicides are down more than 80%, from an average of 15 to 20 in a six-month period to three, according to newly released data.
At the Coronado Bridge in San Diego, where more than 400 people have ended their lives, the Bridge Rail Foundation’s wisdom “has been integral to helping us get things done down here,” said Rhonda Haiston, co-founder of theRunners and walkers traverse the Coronado Bridge in San Diego during the 37th Annual Bay Bridge Run/Walk on Sunday, May 19, 2024.
Other deaths included Roy Raymond, the founder of Victoria’s Secret; the eldest son of former journalist, White House aide and California U.S. Sen. Pierre Salinger; and a Fremont man distraught over a breakup with his wife, who threw his 3-year-old daughter over the side, then followed her down. Suicide barrier netting hangs below the side of the Golden Gate Bridge in Sausalito, Calif., on Thursday, July 18, 2024. Famed Ansel Adams photos of Yosemite, Golden Gate to be featured on new U.S. stamps
The nets, which the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District says were modeled on similar systems around the world, aren’t soft and springy, like a circus net. The district warns that jumping into the net, 20 feet down, will result in significant bruises, sprains and possibly broken bones.
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