Doctor’s efforts to build Golden Gate Bridge suicide barrier realized at last

Dr. Mel Blaustein remembers that when he proposed a suicide barrier for the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004, he heard only ho-hums. Erecting a suicide barrier was not popular, he said. 

Seventy-five percent of polled San Franciscans in 2005 were opposed to it, thinking it would either wreck the view of the bridge or increase the bridge tolls.