D.C. is installing temporary barriers on the bridge that carries Connecticut Avenue over Rock Creek Parkway after the efforts of a woman whose fiancé died there by suicide.

Peter Tripp jumped off the Taft Bridge in 2022.

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“His sense of morality and ethics was unmatched,” his fiancée, Dr. Chelsea Van Thof, told News4 in September 2022. “He was gentle and kind and thoughtful.”

She was outraged to learn the Duke Ellington Bridge just a few blocks away from the Taft Bridge had safety barriers installed in 1986 to deter people from jumping.

“The fact that the same bridge, essentially, one has a life-saving barrier and the other one doesn’t, blows my mind,” Van Thof said.

She champions suicide prevention, including getting

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