SF News At Long Last (And Way Over Budget), Suicide Prevention Nets Finally Installed on Golden Gate Bridge They may be four years late and $148 million over budget, but the Golden Gate Bridge’s suicide prevention barriers are now fully in place on both sides of the bridge’s entire 1.7-mile span.
SF News Body of Missing Netflix Engineer Found Near Golden Gate Bridge The remains of a young man who had just graduated from college and moved to the Bay Area to take a job with Netflix were found near the Golden Gate Bridge last week, and they've now been positively identified.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Finally Getting Long-Overdue Earthquake Seismic Retrofit The unsettling truth is that the Golden Gate Bridge is the only bridge in California that has not been seismically retrofitted, but officials are finally starting that process, which is likely to take years and go wildly over budget.
SF News 22-Year-Old Netflix Engineer Missing Since Monday, Possessions Found Near Golden Gate Bridge The family of San Jose man and recent Bay Area arrival Yohanes Kidane is frantically searching for him after his disappearance Monday, and while his phone and backpack were found near Golden Gate Bridge, there is still no sign of Kidane.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Prevention Nets Already Reducing Deaths, Despite Not Being Complete The number of deaths by suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge has decreased remarkably as work on the suicide prevention nets continues, and the barriers are expected to be fully installed by the end of the year.
SF News Pete Buttigieg and Nancy Pelosi Join London Breed to Celebrate $400M Federal Grant for Golden Gate Bridge Upgrades "We know that the dollars in the federal government are hard to get, which is why this funding is significant," said SF Mayor London Breed at a Monday morning event at the Roundhouse Cafe at the Golden Gate Bridge, celebrating a major new grant from the Biden Administration.
SF News Big Rig Overturns In High Wind On Golden Gate Bridge Saturday Not long after the National Weather Service had issued a warning about high winds near the Golden Gate on Saturday, a gust toppled a semi truck on the bridge, leading to a traffic headache that lasted hours.
SF News That Suicide Prevention Net Along Golden Gate Bridge Won't Be Done for at Least Another Year Having begun construction in 2018, the GGB's suicide prevention net system — a $211M project ideated back in 2015, but has experienced many setbacks, some spurred by the pandemic — is now set to be done by November 2023, a full two years past its originally planned completion date.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Net Finally Nearing Completion Two or three people are still taking their lives on the bridge each month, but the completion date for a long-sought suicide detrerrent net is finally on the horizon.
Arts & Entertainment New Video Game Imagines San Francisco In 3022, After 200 Feet of Sea Level Rise A new PlayStation game by Sony-owned Guerrilla Games depicts San Francisco and some other parts of the state as they might appear without so many humans, in a distant future well populated by threatening robotic dinosaurs.
SF News Santa Rosa Rideshare Stabbing Suspect Found Just Strolling Golden Gate Bridge A 19-year-old Santa Rosa man accused of stabbing his rideshare driver in the neck and elbow on Christmas Day has been arrested after being apprehended walking along the Golden Gate Bridge.
SF News It's Going to Cost $450K to Stop the Golden Gate Bridge From 'Singing' Whether you're charmed or perturbed by the loud hum coming from the Golden Gate Bridge on windy days, it's likely going to get fixed next year.
SF News Anti-Vaxx Protest on Golden Gate Bridge Snarls Traffic, Leads to Five Injuries Two California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers and three Golden Gate Bridge workers were injured by a vehicle during a chaotic protest scene Thursday evening relating to vaccine mandates in the workplace.
Arts & Entertainment Parade of Ships Passes Through Golden Gate Friday Morning If you're not working or can take a break, you may want to head over to Crissy Field or another spot with a good vantage point on the Golden Gate as today's the day for the Parade of Ships.
SF Politics Protest In Support of Citizenship For Immigrants Shuts Down Golden Gate Bridge Golden Gate Bridge traffic was halted Thursday morning as a group of about 25 vehicles stopped in the middle of the bridge, blocking traffic as demonstrators held signs and gave speeches from the bed of a pickup truck.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Equator Coffees to Take Over as Vendor at Golden Gate Bridge's Historic Round House Cafe The Art Deco-styled Round House Cafe on the SF side of the Golden Gate Bridge is getting a new tenant, and it's none other than Marin County-based Equator Coffees.
SF News Engineers Furiously Trying to Fix Golden Gate Bridge’s Constant Humming Sound It’s a humdinger of a problem for the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District that the bridge still “sings” during high winds, but the transit agency won’t say about who’s fixing it or how.
Arts & Entertainment Springtime Palate Cleanser: ‘Swan Lake’ Outdoor Ballet on the SF Bay Another stunning outdoor ballet video from Post:ballet, as their interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Swan Lake’ premieres today and pirouettes around the Golden Gate Bridge.
SF News Injury Crash on Northbound 101 Near Sausalito Causes Major Bridge Backup The Golden Gate Bridge had standstill traffic Thursday afternoon after all northbound lanes were blocked following an injury crash near the vista point on the north end of the bridge.
SF News ‘Go Slow’ Protests For Breonna Taylor to Possibly Block Bay Bridge and Golden Gate as Word Spreads On Social Media Protesters were being encouraged to “pick a bridge” on Thursday and “go slow” in order to bring further attention to the lack of justice in the police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville — and the Dumbarton Bridge is being targeted as well.
SF News Four CHP Officers, Three Others Hospitalized For Fentanyl Exposure Following Golden Gate Crash A reportedly impaired driver crashed into a median divider near the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza on Sunday morning, and the incident — apparently due to some quantity of fentanyl inside the vehicle — led to seven people being hospitalized for fentanyl exposure.
SF News Car On Fire Causes Major Backup On Golden Gate Bridge Multiple lanes of the Golden Gate Bridge were entirely shut down Tuesday afternoon after a car burst into flames and fire crews responded to the blaze.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Officials Say They Are Trying To Tone Down All That Wind-Caused 'Singing' Engineers for the Golden Gate Bridge apparently knew that there might be some humming caused by the spacing of new, thinner handrail slats that were installed over the last few months.
SF News Video: SF Couple Gets Engaged During Black Lives Matter Protest On Golden Gate Bridge A San Francisco couple took a dramatic — and windy — moment on the Golden Gate Bridge, during which protesters had halted traffic in both directions on Saturday afternoon, to get engaged in front of the assembled crowd.
SF News Scenes From Saturday's Golden Gate Bridge and Berkeley Demonstrations Today saw thousands descend on the Golden Gate Bridge — which backed up the roadway for some time — hundreds take a knee at Candlestick Park to honor George Floyd, and the East Bay mobilize to denounce racism and recognize black healthcare workers on the pandemic’s frontlines.
