Suicide barrier? I’ve walked that bridge a few times and there’s nothing of the sort. If you ever wanted to jump, there’d be nothing to stop you but the tourists. And fucking hell it’s high. Giant boats pass underneath and look like ants. And supposedly the water is full of *sharks*. That bridge is the easily the best suicide place in the Bay Area.
.
Between the walkway and the road there’s a little crack you can see through, but it’s too small for an adult. I remember a huge controversy when a toddler slipped through, and the parents held it through the crack for, like, ten minutes, till they lost their grip and watched their toddler fall half a mile to its death. Fucking creepy bridge, that.

Also, it just occurred to me that a few hundred people have committed suicide right into Fort Point, an open-air touristy thing directly below the bridge:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Point%2C_San_Francisco
That’s an awesome way to say ‘fuck you’ to the world before you go, really. Seriously, if you jumped from there, you couldn’t avoid splattering people from Idaho with your blood.

fuckin a

@Wisebrute: There’s a lot of tourists walking along that bridge, and the railing is pretty chunky. I could see trying to climb over, and someone grabbing you before you could.