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  2. Golden Gate Bridge - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The Bridge is a 2006 British–American documentary film by Eric Steel, which spans 365 days of filming at the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge in 2004. The film captured a number of suicides, and featured interviews with family and friends of some of the identified people who had thrown themselves from the bridge that year.

  4. List of bridges in the United States by height - Wikipedia

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    Golden Gate Bridge: Golden Gate: 1937: California: Laurel Creek Gorge Bridge: Laurel Creek: 2002: North Carolina: San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (western span) San Francisco Bay: 1936: California: 215 ft (65.5 m) Bayonne Bridge: Kill Van Kull: 1931: New York / New Jersey: 212 ft (64.6 m) George Washington Bridge: Hudson River: 1931: New ...

  5. Suicide prevention net on Golden Gate bridge cut deaths in ...

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    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.

  6. Fort Point National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    The fort is now protected as Fort Point National Historic Site, a United States National Historic Site administered by the National Park Service as a unit of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It is now popular as a tourist viewing point of the Golden Gate Bridge directly over top of it.

  7. Golden Gate - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Gate is a strait on the west coast of North America that connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. [2] It is defined by the headlands of the San Francisco Peninsula and the Marin Peninsula, and, since 1937, has been spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge.

  8. List of suicide locations - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. How the world’s tallest bridge changed the map of Europe - AOL

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    If the design wasn’t challenging enough, then came the construction which started in October 2001. The project cost a cool 400 million euros ($437 million) and was financed by Eiffage, a private ...