For years, I have been on the board of Bridge Rail Foundation, an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization in the San Francisco Bay Area that has been the primary advocate for a suicide barrier on the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A big step was taken with the goal of saving lives at the Golden Gate Bridge as a ceremony held on Thursday marked the beginning of work on a suicide barrier. Families of suicide ...

Six weeks ahead of schedule, contractors for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers placed a 140-ton, steel vertical lift gate near the south end of an 1.8-mile-long storm surge barrier nearing completion ...

There has been an annual average of about 30 confirmed suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge over the last 20 years, but since the installation of a lifesaving barrier, that rate has significantly ...

If plans for a suicide barrier along the Golden Gate Bridge ever reach the point where Jon Raggett is involved, he won't fuss over aesthetics or wonder whether the barrier would just send ...