I’ve been reading the comments concerning the railing height on the Eighth Street bridges in Port Angeles. (“Port Angeles council votes to add safety barrier,” PDN, Nov. 24).
Seems the clamor is for the city to raise the railing height as a minimum effort.
The bridge railings meet state Department of Transportation safety standards as is, according to documents from the city engineer’s office.
The city is under no obligation to take extraordinary measures and spend a huge amount on the off-chance of future suicide prevention.
So the railing is raised; persons bent on killing themselves just bring a ladder.
Persons who reach the point to do themselves in will find a way regardless of the expense and measures taken to prevent it.
The focus should be on the parents and their own self-examination of what might have gone wrong.
It should be a wake-up call to other families to pay better attention to children and what negative signals they could be sending to their kids.
Larry Winters,
Sequim