![]() Paul Muller, president of the Bridge Rail Foundation, a nonprofit created to end suicides on the bridge, said the span has been the site of nearly 2,000 suicides since it opened in 1937, including 25 last year alone. Work on the net began in 2018 and was set to be completed by January 2021 but has been repeatedly delayed.īridge officials in 2008 voted to move forward with the net, meant to deter those looking to jump to their deaths and catch those who do. The project aims to add 20-foot-wide stainless steel mesh nets on both sides of the 1.7-mile bridge and replace maintenance platforms used by bridge workers that were built in the 1950s. ![]() ![]() “We were alarmed to discover the District concealed significant information during the proposal phase of the Project, including extensive deterioration in certain areas of the bridge,” Shimmick said in a statement. say that changes to and flaws in the government’s net design and the lack of transparency about the deterioration of the bridge’s maintenance platforms have raised the construction price from $142 million to at least $398 million. The allegations filed Monday in state court by Shimmick Construction Co. “The District has been transparent about the condition of the Bridge with Shimmick throughout the project.A suicide prevention net on the Golden Gate Bridge that is already years behind schedule will cost about $400 million, more than double its original price, because of problems sparked by the government agency that manages the span, the lead contractors allege. “We are deeply frustrated by Shimmick’s slow pace of construction and multiple delays building the suicide barrier,” Paolo Cosulich-Schwartz, a district spokesperson, wrote to the Associated Press. In recent court filings, the contractors are pinning the blame for the project's delays and overruns on the district, and have asked a judge for permission to sue the district, too.Īccording to the Associated Press, only 47% of the nets have been completed to date, and it could take until December 2023 just to finish that portion of the project. Last year, one of SDJV's subcontractors, Vigor Works LLC, sued SDJV over money owed from the project, and SDJV has since countersued. including extensive bridge deterioration that interfered with SDJV's ability to perform the work as designed by the District."Īs a result, SDJV alleges that the costs for the project have skyrocketed from an original estimate of $142 million to at least $398 million, and they've blown past the original January 2021 completion deadline for the suicide deterrence nets. But they say the project as it was originally drawn up by the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District (referred to as the "District" in court filings) was flawed, and that the district "concealed significant information. In 2018, contractors Shimmick Construction Company and Danny’s Construction Company, referred to as SDJV in court filings, were supposed to begin work updating decades-old maintenance and inspection platforms, replacing handrails and adding wind fairing as well as suicide deterrence nets to the bridge. Long-delayed plans to fix maintenance platforms and put up stainless steel mesh nets on both sides of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge are still far from completion, at a skyrocketing cost of nearly $400 million, according to recent court filings. The Golden Gate Bridge is seen with fog during Fleet Week in San Francisco on Oct.
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