San Francisco Chronicle reports, “It was all smiles and hugs in June 2014 when, after decades of debate, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District board approved spending $76 million to install steel-mesh nets under the span to prevent suicide jumps. Since then, however, a big detour has come up that puts the whole project in doubt. That detour is the price: Two bids came in for the job, and the cheapest was $142 million — nearly double what the board expected.”
