2012, and the assumption of many more unconfirmed deaths. In 2004, documentary filmmaker Eric Steel set off controversy by revealing that he had tricked the bridge committee into allowing him to film the Golden Gate for months and had captured 23 suicides on film for his documentary The Bridge (2006). In March 2005, San Francisco supervisor Tom Ammiano proposed funding a study on erecting a suicide barrier on the bridge. In June 2014, a suicide barrier was approved for the Golden Gate bridge. Barrier construction began in 2017 and was expected to be completed by 2021. In Seattle, Washington, more than 230 people have died by suicide from the George Washington Memorial Bridge, making it the second deadliest suicide bridge in the United States. In a span of a decade ending in January 2007, nearly 50 people jumped to their deaths, nine in 2006. At a cost of $5,000,000, a suicide barrier was completed on February 16, 2011. The San Diego-Coronado Bridge is the third-deadliest suicide bridge in the United States, followed by the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Cold Spring Canyon Arch Bridge along State Route 154 in Santa Barbara County, California has seen 55 jumps by suicide since opening in 1964, including 7 in 2009. A proposal to install a barrier on this bridge in 2005 led to the completion of a safety barrier/fence in March 2012. Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, California, has also seen barriers erected. During the mid-20th century in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Wissahickon Memorial Bridge had a policeman stationed after it opened because of the numerous suicides taking place. In recent years, the Eads Bridge, connecting St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois, has seen several suicides, approximately 18 since its re-opening. Cornell University has had a number of suicides by jumping from the bridges over the gorges on campus from the 1970s to 2010. New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, West Virginia Suicide Bridge Road is located just off Maryland Route 14 near the town of Secretary, Maryland. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland. The George Washington bridge in New York City. See also Copycat suicide List of suicide sites Lover's Leap Aokigahara suicide forest References External links (A series of articles about suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge.) (A bridge suicide jump survivor invents a prevention device.) (Detailed documentation of Skyway Bridge suicides in Florida.) Bridges Suicide methods