Since the bridge was built in 1974, 200 people have jumped. 5 have survived. That is roughly 5 people a year. In March alone this year 6 people jumped and that is what the paths to be closed. I remember on woman jumped with her 2 children and one guy jumped from the bridge onto the dual carriageway below. People have been talking about caging the bridge or putting a net under it. They did this on the Golden Gate Bridge in 2014. It is 500m longer than the Humber Bridge and cost £54 million to put a net under it. There would be a feel good factor for the Humber Bridge board if they spent this money and stopped people jumping off the bridge. But suicide numbers would not decrease as Hull has other bridges, train stations and a whole host of other ways of killing yourself... What annoyed a lot of people is that they closed the bridge with no thought of those who need to cross it to get to work by foot or bike and made no provision for them. I have not seen how many people actually commute over the bridge this way. Very few I would imagine. Hopefully a solution will be found. But I do not think throwing millions of pounds at it is the answer. I am sure some lessons can be learned from the Golden Gate Bridge.