A new report says the stainless steel net would be the best option for the bridge, which has been the site of more than 400 suicides.
Authorities also have often closed the bridge, sometimes for hours, as they approach would-be jumpers. There are more than 83,000 average daily trips across the five-lane span., Caltrans says it evaluated about a dozen alternatives for a barrier — various types of wire-mesh fences, glass panels, a horizontal net strung below the bridge deck, tall thistles — before settling on the vertical steel net as the best option.
A continuous steel plate would be put on top of the existing walls to provide brackets for poles spaced approximately 20 feet apart. The net would be attached to the poles with tension cables at the top and bottom. The barrier would be offset behind the existing walls by 4 to 8 inches and angle outward slightly.
After looking at almost two dozen potential environmental impacts in the new report, Caltrans believes the barrier can be designed and constructed to mitigate them. That would eliminate the need for a full environmental review, potentially shortening the timeline for the project. Suicide barriers don’t qualify for highway-safety funding in Caltrans’ budget, so other sources would have to be found. Two local city council members,in Coronado and Raul Campillo in San Diego, recently called on a regional planning agency to reallocate $25 million earmarked in 2004 for a tunnel from the bridge to North Island Naval Air Station. It was never built and is no longer under consideration.
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