In late 2023 we proposed a simple, yet viable “Life Screen” to stop what we called the Coronado Bridge suicide machine in The Coronado News and the Times of San Diego. Our proposed Life Screen can be installed within one month’s time and for less than $45,000. We concluded our 2023 article with this community challenge: “In a […]
Bill Walton
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Op-Ed: Homelessness is an emergency: Let’s ‘Parachute in’ Sunbreak Ranch at Brown Field
San Diego is currently living a homeless humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions. The time is now to consider deploying what we call the Sunbreak Ranch Emergency Parachute. The tragic numbers are staggering. According to our own local government’s Regional Task Force On Homelessness, in the San Diego region there were over 4,751 new unsheltered homeless people in 2023. […]
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Op-Ed: Stopping the Coronado Bridge suicide machine
In April 2018, A Simple Solution to Preventing Suicides on the Coronado Bridge was published in the Times of San Diego. This proposed solution drew significant attention, but was not enacted. Five years later, the Coronado Bridge Suicide Machine continues unabated. As do the interminable bridge shutdowns causing massive traffic problems on both sides of the bridge […]
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Op-Ed: It’s past time to take back San Diego from homelessness
San Diego (and our region) has been shamefully mismanaged over the past decade, turning our streets, canyons and public parks into ground zero in a raging homeless humanitarian crisis that is negatively impacting all of us. In the face of this ongoing disaster, we recently authored Sunbreak Ranch Is the Answer to San Diego — and America’s […]