Golden Gate Bridge To Add Nets To Save Jumpers

This comes after its deadliest year.

Now the various authorities in charge of the Golden Gate Bridge are close to agreeing a $66 million (£41m) project to alter the railings and fix huge nets under the public walkway and cycle path.

Suicides occur occasionally at the Empire State Building in New York, which has fences well above head height on the outdoor observation deck, and from other skyscrapers or drops such as the Grand Canyon – but the bridge is by far America’s top suicide site…

Death is certain in 98 percent of leaps. The drop takes four seconds and the jumper hits the water at 75 mph. Only five percent survive that impact, then drown or die of cold in the treacherous waters.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.