Posted on 04/13/2017 2:38:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
San Francisco officials will on Thursday mark the start of the construction of the suicide-prevention net under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senator Dianne Feinstein are expected to be at the ribbon-cutting ceremony from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Officials say the net will be positioned 20 feet down from the sidewalk and extend out another 20 feet. Made of seven football fields worth of stainless steel, the structure will curve up slightly at its ends and be suspended 200 feet above the Pacific Ocean on both sides of the bride.
In 2016, 39 people alone jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and plunged to their death, according to spokeswoman Priya Clemens. But bridge patrol workers were able to prevent an additional 200 people from committing suicide.
The California Highway Patrol has been tasked with managing traffic during construction. The agency will be paid for opening and closing designated lanes at night, when the bulk of the work is expected to occur. The construction is scheduled for nighttime because less cars are on the road.
Construction on the bridge's long-delayed prevention net is expected to finish in 2021. The project will cost a total of $193 million, officials say.
Hope it doesn’t spoil the aesthetics.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to build a platform, with a sign-in sheet to help people that want to jump to do so? End of day, if they want to end their lives, isn’t that their choice. And a specific jump, make it a plank, is poetic and leaves lot less mess than if they slice their wrists, jump in front of a bus, or suicide by cop.
Yes, it would be cheaper.
Sign in sheet discriminates against those who can’t read cursive.
Maybe a trail camera instead to snap their pic before they go.
That would kill them.
Common sense is deadly...
The newspaper was forever blathering about it , pro and con fence--seems to me maybe a counter--- You can be #--- this year, month or whatever (--it was headed for 1000 , IIRC, when I lived there---) would be in order---
LOL!
You guys are stupid....LOL
luv the ides Freepers come up with.
Saves time and money...
For liberal jumpers I suppose .
The CA pols need all the taxpayers that they can keep alive, so ....
I doubt that those involved in this pursuit have any real idea of what suicide is about.
SF has a lot of people who possess various degrees of insanity. What are the odds that net-jumping off the bridge will become popular?
GMTA!
It will become the thing to do for thrill seekers.
A bit unrelated, but when I went to visit the Empire State Building in NYC in May, 1989 (saw the World Trade Centre as well), the observatory deck was completely fenced in. Had that been done shortly before the late 1980s period?
Yep could attract thrill seekers, sort of like some people go bungee jumping or hang gliding.
And if someone gets injured from a jump, its lawsuit city. Reason being, the thrill seekers will sue based on the idea that this netting is supposed to provide for a soft landing and say that the city is negligent if anyone gets hurt. You just know someone will sue based on that.
The city may end up regretting putting up a net.
There is a documentary about people jumping off this bridge.
One of the saddest movies I’ve ever seen.
They interviewed people who had survived the jump and family members of the deceased.
They set up cameras to just film the bridge.
Every once in a while, you’d see a splash and you knew someone was gone.
While it’s under construction I assume the Highway Patrol will also be working on suicide prevention.
I wonder if they expect a huge increase in suicides in liberal San Francisco since Trump won thus the “go ahead” to get the net built..
I thought the left liked suicide. (what they call euthanasia).
Stupid?! Stupid is spending $193 million dollars to prevent people from jumping. Do you really think this will stop them from committing suicide?
Dude. that was a joke and affirmation of your hilarious solution.
Imaging your friend laughing and saying what I said.
It funny.
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