SAN FRANCISCO, March 12 (UPI) -- Suicide prevention nets will be strung below San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge if bridge officials commit $22 million to the $66 million project.
The California Transportation Department and the regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission appear ready to put up $44 million of the total cost of placing the safety nets along the 1.7-mile span where more than 1,500 people have leaped to their deaths since it was opened in 1937, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.