Construction has begun on a steel net to prevent people from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, after years of debate over whether such an obstacle would mar the bridge’s romantic image.
For at least the next two years, crews will toil throughout the night to build a coarse web of marine cable beneath the Art Deco span that is both an international symbol for engineering beauty and a magnet for suicides.
— San Francisco Chronicle
"Oakland companies Shimmick Construction Co. and Danny’s Construction Co. won the contract to design and build the net for $211 million — about three times what the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District Board of Directors had proposed when it put the project out for bid in 2014," the Chronicle reports.
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$211 million. dang.
*Before* overruns.
for a net
can't you just jump down to the net and then jump from that?
it's a 1/64" thin marine cable to shred you so the sharks don't choke on bones.
Human flypaper.
If suicide prevention was the goal they would create a humane society that cared for everyone.
Going out with a bounce.
Reminds me of the safety nets the Chinese put on the factories to catch workers throwing themselves off the roofs. Must be for people who've lost their housing due to wildly escalating real estate values in Frisco.
Nobody calls it Frisco.
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