Pasadena's Colorado Street Bridge Is Getting New Barriers To Prevent Jumpers, And The City Wants Your Input

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Pasadena's Colorado Street Bridge Is Getting New Barriers To Prevent Jumpers, And The City Wants Your Input
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The city has unveiled four new designs that are under consideration.

An unusually high wave of suicides and attempts in 2017 prompted the city to install 10-foot tall mesh fencing at each of the bridge's 20 alcoves.

A year later, after police spent 13 hours talking down a would-be jumper over Labor Day weekend, then-city manager Steve Mermell ordered the entire 1,400-foot span of the bridge to be fenced.. Still, he said,"[w]e need to take action."

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