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Golden Gate suicide net $400 million
Posted by RealDawg
on 11/30/22 at 10:33 pm
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The lead contractors in charge of building a suicide prevention net on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge say it will cost about $400 million, more than double its original price because of deterioration on the bridge that was concealed and other problems
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The project aims to add 20-foot-wide (6-meter-wide) stainless steel mesh nets on both sides of the 1.7-mile (2.7-kilometer) bridge and replace maintenance platforms used by bridge workers that were built in the 1950s. Work on the net began in 2018 and was set to be completed by January 2021 but has been repeatedly delayed.
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San Francisco bay has been the site of nearly 2,000 suicides since it opened in 1937, including 25 last year alone.
re: Golden Gate suicide net $400 millionPosted by samson73103 
on 11/30/22 at 10:37 pm to RealDawg
on 11/30/22 at 10:37 pm to RealDawgquote:
San Francisco bay has been the site of nearly 2,000 suicides since it opened in 1937, including 25 last year alone.
Further proof that liberals are miserable people.
re: Golden Gate suicide net $400 millionPosted by mahdragonz 
on 11/30/22 at 10:38 pm to RealDawg
on 11/30/22 at 10:38 pm to RealDawgI made the mistake of watching the movie The Bridge about suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge.
I don't regret of lot of things, but that's one of them. I still can't shake the wrong feeling of it.
I don't regret of lot of things, but that's one of them. I still can't shake the wrong feeling of it.
re: Golden Gate suicide net $400 millionPosted by Turf Taint on 11/30/22 at 10:42 pm to RealDawg
on 11/30/22 at 10:42 pm to RealDawgLike non alcoholic beer solves alcoholism
Absurd
Absurd
re: Golden Gate suicide net $400 millionPosted by Robin Masters on 11/30/22 at 10:49 pm to mahdragonz
on 11/30/22 at 10:49 pm to mahdragonzquote:
made the mistake of watching the movie The Bridge about suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge. I don't regret of lot of things, but that's one of them. I still can't shake the wrong feeling of it.
It was a powerful film to say the least.
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re: Golden Gate suicide net $400 millionPosted by Privateer 2007 
on 11/30/22 at 11:01 pm to RealDawg
on 11/30/22 at 11:01 pm to RealDawg$400 million
1.7 miles
20 ft wide
Both sides
$400 million/(5280(ft/mile) x 1.7(miles) x 20(wide) x 2 (sides))
$1114 per SQ ft for the net.
Good God.
1.7 miles
20 ft wide
Both sides
$400 million/(5280(ft/mile) x 1.7(miles) x 20(wide) x 2 (sides))
$1114 per SQ ft for the net.
Good God.
re: Golden Gate suicide net $400 millionPosted by Chucktown_Badger 
on 11/30/22 at 11:01 pm to RealDawg
on 11/30/22 at 11:01 pm to RealDawgImagine being so deluded as to think that by preventing suicidal people from killings themselves in one place they will magically no longer be suicidal and not kill themselves. And you’re willing to spend $400 million on that delusion.
re: Golden Gate suicide net $400 millionPosted by Richard Grayson on 11/30/22 at 11:02 pm to RealDawg
on 11/30/22 at 11:02 pm to RealDawgquote:
San Francisco bay has been the site of nearly 2,000 suicides since it opened in 1937. $400 million
Take that math and apply it to gang violence in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans and tell me how much money we should spend to stop innercity violence.
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Imagine what 400 million could do to address mental health vs a net to catch a mentally I’ll person that can then jump out of said net and into the water below.
You’re assuming that people in this state of mind would reach out for help.
That being said, a few smart guys from Galliano could build this for about tree fiddy
re: Golden Gate suicide net $400 millionPosted by Tigerpride18 on 11/30/22 at 11:13 pm to Chucktown_Badger
on 11/30/22 at 11:13 pm to Chucktown_BadgerI doubt they think it will stop suicides. It will keep kids from seeing them though or they feel it’s a bad look for such a big name place
re: Golden Gate suicide net $400 millionPosted by JackieTreehorn 
on 11/30/22 at 11:14 pm to RealDawg
on 11/30/22 at 11:14 pm to RealDawgI can’t imagine what numbskull would jump off that bridge after watching A View to a Kill.
re: Golden Gate suicide net $400 millionPosted by SlapahoeTribe on 11/30/22 at 11:37 pm to DCtiger1
on 11/30/22 at 11:37 pm to DCtiger1quote:
Imagine what 400 million could do to address mental health vs a net
I’m thinking for a fraction of the price they could staff the bridge 24/7 with suicide prevention experts.
re: Golden Gate suicide net $400 millionPosted by White Roach on 12/1/22 at 12:12 am to SlapahoeTribe
on 12/1/22 at 12:12 am to SlapahoeTribeI don't know what the crew size is now, but in the mid to late 90s there were about two dozen full time painters. Most of them had been through at least minimal suicide prevention training. They actually saved some lives.
About 1994 or 95, there had been 997 suicides off the GGB. They stopped publicizing the number because they were afraid there would be a rash of suicides looking to be "number 1,000". I remember thing that if I was ready to jump off the GGB, goal setting was probably low on my priority list.
Work on a suicide barrier has been going on at least since the late 90's. There were prototypes back then. Aesthetics and wind loading were the main obstacles then. Who knows what craziness has developed in the past 20 or 25 years.
About 1994 or 95, there had been 997 suicides off the GGB. They stopped publicizing the number because they were afraid there would be a rash of suicides looking to be "number 1,000". I remember thing that if I was ready to jump off the GGB, goal setting was probably low on my priority list.
Work on a suicide barrier has been going on at least since the late 90's. There were prototypes back then. Aesthetics and wind loading were the main obstacles then. Who knows what craziness has developed in the past 20 or 25 years.
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