Golden Gate Bridge suicide net

Okay, really?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Suicide-prevention-at-the-Golden-Gate-Bridge-1006404-99723499.html

C'mon, people. $45 million to (maybe) save a handful of lives each year? I feel for people who are desperate, I really do.

But there are SO MANY better uses of $45 million in this state and nationally.

One blogger got it right:

40-50 MILLION dollars for a suicide net?! not to mention the additional cost of maintaining the net for umpteen years to come?! meanwhile, as columnist ken garcia observed, we have no median barrier on the bridge surface to stop full-speed head on multi-car pileups, and we're upping the tolls to cover budget shortfalls. i won't even get into the other myriad ways that 40-50 million dollars could save lives across the rest of San Francisco and Marin counties. i'm incredulous that time and energy is being spent pursuing this, and frustrated that well-meaning suicide prevention groups have latched on to this issue so tenaciously. aren't there a dozen bigger mental-health-fish that they should be frying?