ALL COMMENTS RECIEVED
HAND WRITTEN COMMENT CARDS
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July 23, 2008
Kevin Goess
904 Carmel Avenue, Albany, CA 94706
[email protected]
First preference for an Alternative: No Build
Second preference for an Alternative: No Build
Comments on the Draft EIR/EA:
“Please don’t put anything on the bridge that we have to look through. Our whole
country is covered with fences and safety gates and railings. We have so few places
where you can just open up, relax, and enjoy the view. It’s part thrill, and it’s part
religious, and it’s part a reaction to living in crowded cities where you’re lucky to get a
couple square feet of personal space. I’m sorry that some people have lost loved ones,
but it is not an absolute duty of society to protect every American from themselves. The
limits on a maternalistic government have to be drawn somewhere. Personally, I vote on
drawing them on this site of boarding up the Golden Gate Bridge because some
individual might make the wrong decision.”
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July 23, 2008
Sudi Scull MFT
78 Peralta Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 282-8185
First preference for an Alternative: No Build
Second preference for an Alternative: Alternative 3 – Add Net System that Extends
Horizontally from Bridge
Comments on the Draft EIR/EA:
“Hi – I am a Marriage & Family Therapist. Suicide is a needless & horrendous act that
negatively impacts families for generations. I am now working with a client whose
favorite Aunt committed suicide & then killed her 5 yr. old daughter through a GUN.
Unfortunately putting up a barrier is NOT going to stop suicides – there is always
jumping in front of Bart – a client recently told me of a friend of a friend who jumped off
the North rim of the Grand Canyon. Putting up a barrier is akin to erecting a border fence
between Mexico & U.S.A. – it does not solve the deep economic disparity between the
nations that force immigrants north. Why not take the $30-$50 million & have more
mental health clinics & education programs to alert friends & family in assisting
depressed loved ones in getting the help they so desperately need. It is an awkward &
deeply empathic (sic) task in confronting someone with suicidal ideas – to find out their
thoughts, feelings & plans. Learning how to do so would be similiar (sic) to learning
First-Aid & artificial resuscitation. So as much as I am against erecting any barriers, this
proposed project brings the topic of suicide “out of the closet” – making a taboo subject
matter overt & approachable. This is positive. As an example I have one client who had
acute chronic physical pain & considered suicide to be euthanasia in her case. Her plan
was to jump the Golden Gate Bridge but she was fortunate – she had a teacher who
intervened & my client sought counseling with me – she has learned how to make her
pain manageable & leads a happy productive life.
The Golden Gate bridge is a visual icon, a ‘Seven Wonder of the World.’ It has a
spiritual presence of its own & should be left intact. Additionally we are in an economic
crisis & the funds can be spent more wisely on all sorts of public socially minded
projects.
Thank you for giving me this opportunity to share my views.
Sincerely,
Sudi Scull MFT”
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