The famous Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, was decorated with suicide netting as of Wednesday to prevent suicide jumpers, the Associated Press reported.

City officials announced that workers have added stainless steel netting under the edges on both sides of San Francisco's iconic, 1.7-mile-long building. according to To the Associated Press.

The Golden Gate Bridge's suicide prevention fence has been completed more than a decade after officials gave the green light to a project that would install stainless steel mesh netting on both sides of the 2.7-mile bridge. https://t.co/WKEJci5Pa5

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Nearly 2,000 people have reportedly taken their own lives by jumping from the Golden Gate since the bridge first opened in 1937. (Related: America's suicide rate hits new record: report)

Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge is in its final stages. (1937) pic.twitter.com/0uRQjhMWzF

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“We are installing a continuous physical suicide barrier the entire length of the east and west sides of the 1.7-mile bridge. The bridge is closed,” said Dennis Mulligan, general manager of the Golden Gate Bridge Expressway Transportation District. He said, the newspaper reported.

Although the net was only recently completed, the project began in 2018 after being approved in 2014, according to the Associated Press. (Related: Terrence P. Jeffrey: The 7 Wealthiest Counties Are All Suburbs of DC and San Francisco)

Efforts to construct the 6-foot-wide stainless steel mesh net have begun, but workers have been experiencing delays until recently, the newspaper reported.

The netting is reportedly 6 meters below the bridge deck and is not easily visible to drivers using the bridge. However, the paper said it is easily visible to pedestrians looking over the outer rail.

Mulligan said the net has already saved lives from suicide since it became effective when it was completed in 2023.

Some people jumped online and were saved, the general manager said, according to the Associated Press. Mulligan said others who fell into the net died after jumping off the net and into the water below, the newspaper reported.

USS Enterprise (CVN-65) passing under the Golden Gate Bridge, 1985 pic.twitter.com/AUOJThvFqA

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Those who fall into the net will definitely experience pain, Mulligan said, according to the Associated Press.

“It's a stainless steel wire rope net, so it's like jumping into a cheese grater,” the general manager was quoted as saying. “It's not soft. It's not rubber. It doesn't stretch.”

“I want people to know that when you come here, if you jump, it's going to hurt,” Mulligan said, according to the Associated Press.