I quickly wanted to share a quote from Kevin Hines, the man who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge in California and survived. He said in an interview, "The common misconception is that someone would just go somewhere else [if a barrier were in place]. The fact of the matter is, people are not going anywhere else. People ask me, "Why didn't you just shoot yourself?" I'm like, "What are you — nuts?" That scares the crap out of me. Pills were gross. I had already cut myself, it hurt like hell, and I hated seeing the blood.
If there was a barrier that day, I had no money to get back on the bus, no bus pass, I had nothing on me. I would have had to go and tell someone, or I would have been caught by the California Highway Patrol trying to climb the thing. I would have been saved and put in a mental hospital, and then I'd be at home, dealing with my bipolar, hopefully doing it the right way." 

In the interview, Kevin says that if a barrier were in place at the Golden Gate Bridge, he wouldn't have went to another bridge, he would have gotten help instead. I feel like if we do have netting or a barrier built on the Bayonne Bridge, we can save many lives. Thank you.