The New York Times (1/20, Branch) reports San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge “has been the site of more than 2,000 confirmed suicide leaps since its completion in 1937.” Starting in 2018, workers began assembling “a complicated, miles-long series of stainless-steel nets” on both sides of the bridge to act as a “suicide deterrent system.” In 2024, “as the final pieces of the net were installed and tweaks were made, there were eight. In 2025, the first full year with the nets in place, there were four, and none between June and December. That annual total is surely among the fewest ever recorded at the bridge, and seven months might be the longest stretch without a suicide at the bridge, though early records are sparse.”
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