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.
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?
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?
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.
I thought the left liked suicide. (what they call euthanasia).
Couldn’t jumpers, after having jumped in the net, just jump off the net to their death below?
So now it’s a 2-step process. I really don’t see how it changes things. Plus, you may get “jumpers” doing it just for the thrill (I suppose they’ll be fined to help the budget deficit there).
Or, just drain the bay, fill it with foam and lower the bridge. Much more sensible...
I vote for a trampoline!
Have the animal rights people filed to block this, the way they have with The Wall? What about the endangered species that will get tangled in the net?
The net will not prevent suicide — it will prevent the body to reach the water’s surface.
Another liberal boondoggle. $193 million for a fence that you can jump down to and then climb off and over. Does Nancy Pelosi have a financial interest in this fence company?
“Catch and Release” LOL.
Just another waste of taxpayer funds ... if they want to kill themselves they will find a way. At least if they jump off the bridge there is less chance that they will take someone else along with them.
Pelosi and Feinstein should jump in the Bay as part of quality control. Perhaps there is an unseen mechanical flaw that could be brought to light
Why is there a ribbon cutting if it is just a net going up? We should have Nancy Pelosi test the net, not cut a ribbon.