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Representative Nancy Pelosi joins the families of Golden Gate Bridge suicide victims in 2017 to celebrate the construction of a suicide-prevention barrier on the bridge On October 10, 2008, the Golden Gate Bridge and Transportation District Board of Directors voted 15 to 1 for the preferred option of installing a plastic-covered stainless steel ...
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean in California, United States. The structure links San Francisco —the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula —to Marin County , carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State ...
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, United States – more than 1,600 known suicides; [2] [3] [4] the number is believed to be higher because of people whose bodies were never found. [5] Prince Edward Viaduct, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – 492 suicides before the Luminous Veil, a barrier of 9,000 steel rods, was constructed in 2003. [6]
Since it opened in 1937, around 2,000 people have jumped to their deaths from the bridge. However, as not all jumps are witnessed and not all bodies are found, the actual number could be higher.
[45] [1] In June 2014, a suicide barrier was approved for the Golden Gate Bridge. [46] Barrier construction began in 2017 and was expected to be completed by 2021. [47] In Seattle, Washington, more than 230 people have died by suicide from the George Washington Memorial Bridge, making it the second deadliest suicide bridge in the United States.
The net, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars and was completed behind schedule, greatly reduced suicide deaths in 2023, according to the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.
The Golden Gate Bridge, which first opened in May 1937, was the most popular suicide site in the world during the documentary's filming, with approximately 1,200 deaths by 2003. [8] Its death toll has since been surpassed only by the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in China. [9]
A net designed to prevent suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge could cost nearly $400 million, double what was originally estimated for the project.