Overview
- Taos County authorities ordered an indefinite pedestrian shutdown after recovering a 15-year-old boy, the sixth suicide at the bridge in 2025.
- Officials report three deaths in roughly the past three weeks, with the sheriff calling this year’s toll a record for the span.
- Transportation Secretary Rick Serna is seeking an updated assessment of a 2018 study to determine how fencing or nets could be installed.
- NMDOT says crisis call boxes at the bridge were upgraded this year and security staffing has been boosted to three guards during the review period.
- Suicide-prevention leaders and public-health experts urge physical barriers and investigation of a possible point cluster, noting sharp declines where nets were added at the Golden Gate and Sunshine Skyway bridges.