Sunshine Skyway bridge suicide barrier may finally stop the ripples of loss |

Sunshine Skyway Bridge ranks among the worst bridges in the nation for suicides. Now, a project designed to prevent them is finally underway. A contractor for the Florida Department of Transportation has started work to install steel netting along a roughly mile-and-a-half stretch of the bridge. Officials expect the $3.4 million project to be complete by summer, after a delay blamed on the pandemic.