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The current railing is only four-feet high and is easy to climb.

“As long as we continue to do nothing, this problem will persist,” Miera told the Journal. He has pushed for an “anti-climb fence” for the Bridge, but the NMDOT has never acted on the request, citing weight concerns for the 60-year-old structure. “They seem like they want to appear to want to find resolution to this, he said.


1 posted on 09/23/2025 12:48:09 PM PDT by CedarDave
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Sorry but I don’t see the point of inconveniencing thousands of people or more because a few choose to do themselves in. This is akin to stopping all traffic on a major bridge because someone is threatening to jump. Life goes on and people have emergencies, work, deadlines etc


2 posted on 09/23/2025 12:52:24 PM PDT by albie
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If someone wants to off their self it probably wouldn’t matter if the fence was 40 feet tall, they could find a way to scale it.


3 posted on 09/23/2025 12:54:23 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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“They seem like they want to appear to want to find resolution to this,” Miera said.
...seem like...want to appear to want to...

“So I’m hopeful. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt.”

Seems like they appear to be telling you to KTA.
JMO, YMMV

4 posted on 09/23/2025 12:55:43 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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It is the third such death to take place at the Rio Grande Gorge in three weeks
and the sixth so far there this year,


Committing suicide by jumping off the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge?

Wow, don't look down.



7 posted on 09/23/2025 1:03:58 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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Sightseers peer over the bridge’s 4-foot tall railings into the viridescent water coursing through the canyon 600 feet below.

They're just now seeing the problem?

8 posted on 09/23/2025 1:04:37 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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ya thats it... regulate the many for the actions of 1 stupid person... smmfh...


13 posted on 09/23/2025 1:24:13 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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one of the many things I like about thailand... there are not many guard rails anywhere!! The outlook there is, if you wanna die, go ahead. we are not going to mess up the view of our land’s natural state...

So tired of this kinda crap making our overseers pass laws and guard rail us to protect us from ourselves...


15 posted on 09/23/2025 1:30:35 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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Not the first time and won’t be the last time a person jumped off a bridge.


17 posted on 09/23/2025 1:37:51 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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In true New Mexican fashion, they can fix the problem by adding another six feet of chicken wire.


23 posted on 09/23/2025 1:52:56 PM PDT by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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NMDOT, which manages the bridge, also hired a third security guard for the site...


24 posted on 09/23/2025 2:02:27 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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Simple, effective low-cost solution to what may, or may not be, a problem. Simply pass a law making it illegal to jump off the bridge. Problem solved!


25 posted on 09/23/2025 2:03:11 PM PDT by oldplayer
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When you gotta go … you gotta go. It was probably someone self-deportinng.

28 posted on 09/23/2025 2:42:31 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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“ As long as we continue to do nothing, this problem will persist,” Miera told the Journal. He has pushed for an “anti-climb fence” for the Bridge”

“When stupidity ceases to be fatal, mankind ceases to evolve.”

-the Internet.


30 posted on 09/23/2025 2:57:47 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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