The Golden Gate Bridge and the 'nanny state'

Golden Gate Bridge suicide barrier funding OK'd
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San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge moved a big step closer to getting an oft-debated suicide barrier after bridge officials on Friday approved a $76 million funding package for a net system that would prevent people from jumping to their deaths. The bridge district's board of directors voted unanimously in favor of the funding for a steel suicide net. The funding sources are $20 million in bridge toll revenue, $49 million in federal money and $7 million from the state. A tearful Dana Barks of Napa, who lost his son, Donovan, to suicide on the bridge in 2008, said after the vote that he was almost speechless. "A lot of people have done so much incredible work to get this accomplished," he said. He rose from his knees and shared a tearful embrace with Sue Story of Rocklin, whose son Jacob jumped off the bridge in 2010. "We did it!" Story said. "It's no longer the Bridge of Death anymore."

Comment: Nice retro image of the Golden Gate Bridge under construction. Source. News flash ... there are other bridges! (I actually have walked across bridges and not jumped!)