Skip to Article Set weather Back To Main Menu Close Customize Your Weather Set Your Location: Enter City and State or Zip Code Submit Subscribe Portland Updated: Apr. 13, 2019, 10:23 a.m. | Published: Apr. 13, 2019, 10:21 a.m. 10 1 / 10 Portland's Vista Bridge: an update 820 shares By David Stabler | For The Oregonian/OregonLive The fences on Vista Bridge may not be pretty, but the 9-foot suicide-prevention barriers have been effective at stopping suicides on Portland’s “Suicide Bridge.” Since the fences went up in 2013, no one has died jumping from the historic bridge spanning a canyon in Southwest Portland. Prior to the fences, in the years 2008-12, an average of two people a year jumped to their deaths from the bridge, which got its unfortunate nickname soon after it was built in 1926. “I feel very good about the fact no one has jumped from the bridge in over five years,” said Stev...