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The total length of the Golden Gate Bridge from abutment to abutment is 8,981 feet (2,737 m). [58] The Golden Gate Bridge's clearance above high water averages 220 feet (67 m) while its towers, at 746 feet (227 m) above the water, [58] were the world's tallest on a suspension bridge until 1993 when it was surpassed by the Mezcala Bridge, in Mexico.
Golden Gate Bridge: Golden Gate: 1937: California: Laurel Creek Gorge Bridge: Laurel Creek: 2002: North Carolina: San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (western span) San Francisco Bay: 1936: California: 215 ft (65.5 m) Bayonne Bridge: Kill Van Kull: 1931: New York / New Jersey: 212 ft (64.6 m) George Washington Bridge: Hudson River: 1931: New ...
The Bridge is a 2006 British–American documentary film by Eric Steel, which spans 365 days of filming at the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge in 2004. The film captured a number of suicides, and featured interviews with family and friends of some of the identified people who had thrown themselves from the bridge that year.
On average, the district records over 30 deaths annually from people jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.
A net designed to prevent suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge could cost nearly $400 million, double what was originally estimated for the project.
Many countries have noted suicide bridges such as the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. Other well known suicide sites for jumping include the Eiffel Tower and Niagara Falls. [2] Nonfatal attempts in these situations can have severe consequences including paralysis, organ damage, broken bones and lifelong pain.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) speaks at an event July 15, 2024, to commemorate the completion of the suicide deterrent system on the Golden Gate Bridge, also known as the net.
A suicide bridge is a bridge used frequently by people to end their lives, most typically by jumping off and into the water or ground below.A fall from the height of a tall bridge into water may be fatal, although some people have survived jumps from high bridges such as the Golden Gate Bridge. [1]