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I just crossed the old bridge and noticed that somehow, at some point, when I didn’t notice, someone convinced someone to extend the “anti suicide” guard rails ALL the way across the bridge. I was so pleased, it made me smile. Thanks!
—bridge commission
This article appears in Dec 17-23, 2009.
10 Comments
True… but cyclists can still off themselves. Why wasn’t this part of the retrofit in the first place?
cyclists have too much circulating endorphins to succumb to the effects of depression 😉
Guard rails are on the cyclists side too… Though you could always jump down between the roadway and either the walkway or the bikeway as there are spaces there more than big enough to drop through to a watery demise. Yay for suicide.
Those bars are a blessing.
you guys are downers!
have a friend who works on one of the dockyard tugs that goes out & retrieves the bodies/ people (not all of them die) & I know he’s pleased, it may put a dent in how many jump.
especially around this time of year.
I sure wouldn’t want to be a survivor though…
broken bones, hypothermia, pink eye and smell like shit with condoms and tampons all in my hair… something tells me that’s worse than dying at least in the short term.
“you guys are downers!”
“may put a dent in how many jump”
Jeez people, enough with the suicide jokes! It’s bad enough that a booger dangling from your nose is already known as a “suicide jumper,” and that some of the hottest girls on the Internet are “The Suicide Girls.”
I knew someone who jumped from the MacDonald Bridge and survived, albeit with back problems and depression for the rest of his life. Well, it was depression that drove him to jump in the first place, triggered by his girlfriend dumping him and breaking his heart.
The rails are put there to prevent people from jumping specifically onto the dock yards, apparently because of the deceased families suing the military all the time, quite stupid really, what do they think? that the pavement of the ship yards came up and smacked their loved one in the face? Idiots…… They don’t much give a shit about who offs themselves unless it costs the city money 😛
Morbid, you’re wrong. That was (at least partly) true when the rails only extended part way over the bridge but now they extend the whole length, therefore preventing (or discouraging) jumping at any point on the bridge.