Golden Gate Bridge Shuts to Install Safety Barrier
Yellow-clad work crews shared San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge with only bikers, runners, and seabirds Saturday, as officials shut down the bridge to private traffic for the longest period in its 77-year history to install a safety barrier.
The moveable median barrier is meant to prevent more of what since 1970 have been 128 head-on collisions on the bridge, with 16 fatalities, bridge spokeswoman Priya David Clemens said Saturday.
As she spoke, crews were laying down barriers, installing tracks for the barriers to move on, and plugging holes left by the jutting plastic rods that formerly divided opposing streams of traffic on the bridge, which spans the mile-wide channel between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
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