SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) - Arizona transportation officials are close to getting approval to put a barrier on a Sedona area bridge where people have jumped to their deaths.
The Arizona Department of Transportation says the Sedona City Council will discuss the proposed barrier for Midgley Bridge at a meeting this month.
ADOT spokesman Tom Herrmann says the agency is recommending a chain link-style fence that, with the current railing, would make a 10-foot high barrier.
Officials have already installed signs with a suicide hotline on and near the bridge.
According to authorities, five people have died in the last year-and-a-half after jumping from the historic steel arch bridge. There have not been more than two each year in the last decade.
The city of Sedona held a public meeting on the barrier last week.
