The suicide net doesn't have a material impact on the view from the sidewalk, unless you're crazy enough to get right against the edge & look straight down. The view from the towers will be forever changed. Despite being designed to catch humans, it will never be used as any more than a visual deterrent. No human would be stupid enough to see the net & still jump. At most, 1 human might think it's fake, might be on drugs & jump, might think he's fat enough to break through, or simply get blown over the edge.

It's a $211 million testament to a part of the human condition as basic as chairs & pants. No other animal jumps off bridges, but humans are hard wired for it. Perhaps it would have been cheaper to change western culture. US has more suicides than 80% of the world & ranks right below Japan. It has a very conservative culture with oppressed sexuality. Simultaneously, countries with lower suicide rates are places where they sleep with their AK-47's & blow themselves up for a living. Pure anarchy isn't much of a solution, either.