A study has unveiled that people are now searching for more venues to jump off, after barriers have been installed along the Bloor Viaduct to disallow attempts of suicide at this site. This bridge was remarked as a second 'notorious suicide magnet', prior to the installation of these steel barriers.

The first noticed bridge for such cases is San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge in the city, as asserted by Mark Sinyor, who is the Author of this study and also the Resident Doctor in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. The Bloor Viaduct was used by about 10 people every year, between the years 1993 to 2001, to jump off and end their lives, as the study has revealed.

But, after this blockade was established on this bridge, there were no suicide cases reported from July 2003 to 2007; though, it hasn't lowered the overall rates of suicides by jumping, in the region. The statistics reveal that approximately 60 people have taken their lives by jumping off various infrastructures in the city, each year.

Sinyor added, "Certainly it does appear that at least some people who would have otherwise jumped at the Bloor St. Viaduct did so at other bridges. The dream scenario would have been to have gone from 60 to 50 in the jumping suicides, but that number stayed exactly the same".