At some point you gotta just bite the bullet and build a giant net of suicide shame under the bridge. You can't fix or bargain for people's lives by purchasing some street level marketing space. If you don't want people jumping where they go to jump, you gotta build the jumper's equivalent of those anti homeless installations that keep bums from laying down in the best sleeping spots, and just take the option right out of their hands. They will find somewhere shittier to do it. I get that such installations are ugly and depressing, but hey, if people don't want that they can just keep the suicide bridge. Those are also ugly and depressing.
Based on the twitter replies it seems like they eventually went with that after the motivational posters obviously weren't working. A combination of suicide barriers and nets. Now only a few people try and they are all saved.
They've done that: put netting up to catch jumpers.
Drunken college boys would jump into them for laughs. Occasionally missing & plunging to their deaths too.
Ahh, like they have on Aircraft Carriers? (Which also work for people who get blown or stumble off).
But don't those only work because the crewman working on other duties pulls them off immediately? What's to keep people from jumping off the net without that?
At that point, they might be low enough that the landing in the water won't be fatal. I would have to check how high the bridge is.
Another option might be tall barbed wire fencing on the edges of the bridge. Still wouldn't be foolproof against someone obstinate enough who is willing to suicide himself while wearing thick padded clothes and mittens, but it'd still make it difficult enough to dissuade the majority of people, at the cost of being depressingly unaesthetic.
At some point you gotta just bite the bullet and build a giant net of suicide shame under the bridge. You can't fix or bargain for people's lives by purchasing some street level marketing space. If you don't want people jumping where they go to jump, you gotta build the jumper's equivalent of those anti homeless installations that keep bums from laying down in the best sleeping spots, and just take the option right out of their hands. They will find somewhere shittier to do it. I get that such installations are ugly and depressing, but hey, if people don't want that they can just keep the suicide bridge. Those are also ugly and depressing.
Based on the twitter replies it seems like they eventually went with that after the motivational posters obviously weren't working. A combination of suicide barriers and nets. Now only a few people try and they are all saved.
Put a trampoline at the bottom.
They've done that: put netting up to catch jumpers.
Drunken college boys would jump into them for laughs. Occasionally missing & plunging to their deaths too.
Ahh, like they have on Aircraft Carriers? (Which also work for people who get blown or stumble off).
But don't those only work because the crewman working on other duties pulls them off immediately? What's to keep people from jumping off the net without that?
At that point, they might be low enough that the landing in the water won't be fatal. I would have to check how high the bridge is.
Another option might be tall barbed wire fencing on the edges of the bridge. Still wouldn't be foolproof against someone obstinate enough who is willing to suicide himself while wearing thick padded clothes and mittens, but it'd still make it difficult enough to dissuade the majority of people, at the cost of being depressingly unaesthetic.