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...didn't survive may have had the same regret, Hines has joined with the Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California, families of victims, and a small group of politicians to make a renewed push to make it harder to jump over the 4-ft. railing that separates the bridge's pedestrian walkway from the water below. As part of the Art Deco structure's 69th anniversary celebration, the coalition has organized a bell-ringing across the city Wednesday afternoon in memory of all those who have died jumping from the bridge...
...would be too ugly. There's no denying the breathtaking beauty of the view from the pedestrian walkway of the bridge. Rumor even has it that the reason the railing was reduced from 5 1/2 ft., on the bridge's original plans, to 4 ft., was to give its diminutive chief engineer, Joseph Strauss, a better vantage point. Past designs were derided as being reminiscent of barbed wire surrounding a prison, but proponents of a barrier point to Toronto's Prince Edward Viaduct, where some 500 people had jumped to their death and a new barrier, known as the "Luminous...
...average, two people per month are either seen jumping or found in the water. (Many more are believed to jump at night, after the pedestrian walkway is officially closed, and their bodies are sucked out to sea and never found.) What about the cost to the Coast Guard of retrieving bodies? And how can that be balanced against the cost of wasted lives? No one seems to know what those numbers...
...said. The Arboretum web site also describes other safeguards against taking over the landscape too much, such as designing the landscape to reduce visibility to nearby homes. It also mentions measures to appease residents that include making the site more accessible to them by constructing pedestrian trails and improving site maintenance. But Beitler said the measures are merely “a series of window-dressings.” “We recognize that [the development is necessary for the Arboretum] and would like to support it, “ he said. “But we cannot...
...There’s something of a revolution that can be achieved here in terms of pedestrian dynamics,” Band said...