Officials at the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District tapped a group of experts in Canada to study the problem that year. By 2021, they came up with a solution.

The Golden Gate Bridge stretches an impressive 1.7 miles across the Golden Gate Strait. It’s a symbol of engineering excellence. The bridge’s piers reach 746 feet high, making it the tallest ...

200 feet in 4 seconds. On Dec. 27, 2022, McKay boarded a bus at the Santa Rosa Transit Mall on Second Street. He got off two hours later at the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge, near the toll ...

Over the last 20 years, on average, there have been 30 confirmed suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge annually. In 2023, when the net was under construction, there were 14 confirmed suicides and in ...

The Golden Gate Bridge District also hired a consultant after last year’s Key Bridge collapse to assess how the South Tower fender system would perform in the event of a ship collision.

The Golden Gate bridge, in the San Francisco Bay, during its construction in May 1936. Construction began on 05 January 1933 and the bridge was inaugurated 27 May 1937 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...

Five Bay Area bridges on the NTSB list of spans needing risk assessment 06:01. A new report compiled after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore shows that San Francisco's Golden Gate ...

Roughly 12,000 vehicles travel south and 8,000 vehicles travel north on the bridge from 8 a.m. to noon, according to the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, which the office ...

In a typical year, there are around 200 attempts. Bridge officials said, in 2024, staff successfully intervened in 132 attempts. The net, a life-saving project, cost $224 million to complete.