For 60 years, the directors of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, reflecting the live-and-let-live ethos that animates this city, never agreed to build a barrier. Now, with the numbers of suicides rising , the country has more annually than traffic fatalities , and the ages of those jumping here declining, they are moving forward.
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