Family members and friends of suicide victims who died jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge gathered at the steps of San Francisco City Hall today to urge the building of a suicide barrier on the bridge. “This barrier, whether a net or fence, needs to be there,” Gamboa said. Holmes and the family members called for the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to put in the safety net they approved in 2008 but haven't installed due to funding. The goal should be to get the net up as quickly as possible.” 
 
 Working out the costs is tricky because the MTC has never dealt with this type of project before, Goodwin said. “It’s a big challenge.” 
 
 Nicolas Aparicio’s daughter Gabri became one of 10 confirmed suicide victims who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in August, the most suicides the bridge has seen in a month since its completion in 1937. Aparicio said today he believes his daughter’s suicide was an impulse and if there had been a suicide barrier on the bridge, his daughter would still be alive. “I’m convinced she acted on impulse,” Aparicio said. "We believe that if you ask the individual to step away from their means of suicide, then you remove that temptation and you lower their risk of following through in the moment as well as in the future," said Meghan Freebeck, development director for San Francisco Suicide Prevention, a telephone crisis center. Retired Marin County Coroner Ken Holmes said that in 2013, there were 46 confirmed suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge, the highest number in a year he can ever remember. To date, there have been about 1,600 confirmed suicide deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge – more than at any other location in the world, according to the Bridge Rail Foundation, a group organized to prevent suicides on the bridge.
– A grim new milestone at one of the world's most popular suicide spots: Some 46 people jumped to their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge last year, it was announced yesterday. That's the most recorded since the San Francisco landmark opened in 1937, per the Chronicle. Campaigners say those lives could have been saved by the safety net that the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District approved years ago, but the project is still at least $45 million short on funding. One big complaint from families of suicide victims, per ABC7: The bridge will this year see the installation a $26 million moveable barrier designed to prevent head-on collisions—though only one person has died in such a crash on the bridge in the last 15 years. Some 1,600 people have jumped to their deaths since the bridge opened, and campaigners say many of them would still be alive if they had been prevented from acting on impulse. "If it wasn't for the easy access at the bridge, I still believe my daughter would be alive today," says a man whose 17-year-old was one of 10 people to commit suicide from the bridge in August 2013 alone. Friends and family members of victims held a demonstration outside San Francisco City Hall yesterday, reports the San Francisco Appeal. "The 4-foot railing on the Golden Gate Bridge is the equivalent of a loaded gun in the middle of a mental ward," says one man who survived the fall in 2000. He says that seconds before he hit the water, he changed his mind and decided he wanted to live.