Get Your Earplugs! Fence Work Begins Soon on Aurora Bridge

By Doug Alder · April 8th, 2010 · Comments

Residents who live near the Aurora Bridge may be in for some sleepless nights as work gets underway to build a fence across the landmark structure. The work starts Monday, April 19 and will last for one month.

Two lanes of traffic across the bridge will be closed Sunday through Thursday during construction from 9pm to 5am. WSDOT tells us the work will be incredibly noisy. In fact, they’re even offering free industrial strength earplugs for residents who call 206-267-6019.

The Aurora Bridge has been the scene of countless suicides, and officials hope this new fence will discourage would-be jumpers. To track this project, you can log on to WSDOT’s special page.

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Tiktok sounds super smart, so whatever he says is probably right. Thank God for such good people.

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No-one has ever been killed by a falling jumper off the Aurora Bridge.
It is extraordinarily unlikely.

There's like a half-dozen people who live in the fall-zone, in house boats. I don't see why taxpayers should fork out millions for these folks. If you're squeamish about the possibility of seeing a jumper aftermath, don't live there.

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Studies HAVE actually shown that a fence prevents suicides. That's why they are putting this up. Apparently jumpers are a particular type of person, impulsive, etc, without a plan B to kill themselves if they are stopped by something like a fence. They rarely go off and find another method.

And wow, the people below, who might be killed themselves by a jumper (it happens), or who have to clean up the mess, are selfish? Wow. Wow.

Fremontom

I believe that removing the pedestrian walkway would be more effective than a fence.

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Glad to see the fence going up. I'll miss the view when I'm driving but I should probably be looking at the road anyway.

It won't stop all suicides but it'll stop some.

I find most of these complaints to be petty, falacious and misguided, esp. @ frustratedinfremont

thanks for the link @ daffodil