For nearly 10 hours on Thursday, Dec. 18, the Don Holt Bridge stood still.
Traffic backed up for miles. Parents scrambled for school pickups and drop-offs. Workers missed shifts. With one of Charleston’s main arteries shut down, drivers were forced to reroute across the Ravenel Bridge or wind through Mount Pleasant, a reminder that in a peninsula city, there are only so many ways to get where you’re going.
But beyond the gridlock, the incident reopened a deeper conversation in the Lowcountry: what is being done, and what more could be done, to prevent suicide, particularly on Charleston’s bridges and overpasses?…