Gordon Clark: Spend money on mental health services, not bridge suicide barriers

The last time I wrote about the ridiculousness, futility and cost of governments wasting millions of dollars installing suicide fences on bridges, there was an interesting juxtaposition between the reaction to the column from bureaucrats and the public.
Bureaucratic supporters of the fences, in particular one medical health officer, sneeringly wrote to smear me, falsely accusing me of not caring about people with mental health problems, rather than arguing against the points I made.
The public &