Talk:Sunshine Skyway Bridge

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How's this for layout? --SPUI 08:46, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

  • Yeah, SPUI; that's nice. I just couldn't quite manhandle the various widgets into doing what I wanted. Baylink 22:17, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Suicide Bridge

I know it isn't the thing to be most proud of, but in Pinellas County people say after Golden Gate that the Skyway is the 2nd most jumped off of bridge. Other sources say third... Can someone nail down a real statistic and include that in the article? There are even webpages out there which track jumpers. JoeHenzi 18:42, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

  • Per your request, I added a new section with data on Skyway suicides, as well as a photo from the May 1980 accident. -PlainSight 04:21, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Not bad, though a bit more conversational than the rest of the page. I suspect the header wasn't going to last too long, though (even though I liked it a lot :-). We need to clear that photo, though...
    --Baylink 04:45, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
    • I don't like the idea of putting too much information in the article about jumpers. The reporting of suicides is a big ethics question for journalists. Unfortuneately, writing about how someone else has committed suicide tends to increase suicides. This is a known fact and taught in journalism schools. I helped build a bridge that had its first jumper reported prominently, only to have someone else jump two weeks later. I think that the article would be more responsible to focus on listing efforts taken to reduce suicides and funny epispodes like the pendulum swing. - SCgatorFan 03:29, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Info Box

I need help with this InfoBox. Items have been added that are not reflected. Thanks Tampa Gator

Actually that field has not yet been defined at Template:Infobox Bridge. I don't see any reason not to include a field for the toll, so I'll just add that as an optional field. Cacophony 05:48, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New refs

Just something I found.

--Justanother 16:20, 3 August 2007 (UTC)