After several recent deaths, D.C. is designing an anti-suicide barrier for the William Howard Taft Bridge that connects Woodley Park and Kalorama. But while community support for the project is increasing, funding has yet to solidify.
by Johns Hopkins researchers found that suicide deaths at D.C.’s Ellington Bridge declined by 90% after a fence was constructed in 1986.
DDOT director Everett Lott says that the department is “allocating funding to support this project,” and spokesperson German Vigil says that a formal request to transfer funds to the project will be submitted to the D.C. Council within 30 days. “Barriers are shown to cut through [the] impulse [to jump],” she says, and may have stopped Tripp, who she believes acted impulsively.
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