A Taos family is questioning why nothing has been done to the Taos Gorge Bridge to deter suicides despite the approval of a $150,000 grant from the state to install cameras along the bridge and also improve the railing.

Elizabeth Muñoz lost her 20-year-old son Juan to an apparent suicide at the Taos Gorge Bridge. She has since sought safety improvements, but just this month another family is suffering from the same fate.

“It’s still happening here,” Muñoz told KRQE. “We feel like we have to do something to prevent this.”

Munoz said a $150,000 grant from the state to install cameras along the bridge was approved in April. The lack of progress has become frustrating. “It’s been a year and nothing has happened,” Muñoz said.

According to KRQE, the New Mexico Department of Transportation did a study three years ago on ways to deter suicide on the bridge. The ideas included netting, fencing, and cameras. Munoz believes cameras and revisions to the railing would cause those contemplating suicide to “take more time” and offer evidence of what actually took place. “That way the families know for sure what happened there,” Munoz said. “When that happened to my son, they don’t know if somebody did it or if he did.”

No one has said why the cameras haven’t gone up. KRQE reached out to the Taos County Manager but reportedly only heard back from the deputy county manager who had no official comment.

Muñoz is hoping the lawmakers will get involved. “When I was talking to the governor, she said that she was going to help me with the cameras,” Muñoz said, adding with each life lost, “They bring all my emotions back.”

The bridge is the second-highest bridge on the U.S. highway system, and it’s located just outside of Taos, New Mexico, and 43 miles south of Colorado. Taos County officials estimated three years ago that six people a year commit suicide at the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge.