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The bridge was closed on weekends in the summer and fall of 2014 to remove the original lead-based paint and give it a fresh coat of international orange. [9] The repainting and other minor repairs were slated to cost in excess of US$3,000,000 (equivalent to $3,860,000 in 2023).
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.
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.
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The Golden Gate Bridge, which first opened in May 1937, was the most popular suicide site in the world during the documentary's filming, with approximately 1,200 deaths by 2003. [8] Its death toll has since been surpassed only by the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in China.
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About 9000 ships moved through the Golden Gate in 2014, and a similar amount in 2015. [12] The U.S Coast Guard maintains a Vessel Traffic Service to monitor and regulate vessel traffic through the Golden Gate. [13] For navigational guidance, there are white and green lights on the center of the span of the Golden Gate Bridge. [14]