There's a little bad news for all the lovers putting a padlock with your names scribbled on it on a Parisian Bridge
Here's the bad bad news after the cut
The city of Paris has finally decided that it’s had enough of soppy
tourists coming over and dumping bits of metal all over its bridges.
Starting on Monday, the padlocks will be removed from the Pont Des Arts, and plexiglass panels will soon replaces the grills. up to 1 million locks thought to be attached to the railings.
The tradition has now been popular across Europe for about 15 years,
but how it started is quite unclear. It has, however, been often
portrayed in popular culture, such as Parks & Recreation, which saw
main characters Leslie and Ben put their own love lock on the Parisian
bridge.
According to the council, the locks are causing ‘a lasting
degradation of the heritage of Paris and also a risk to the safety of
visitors, Parisians and tourists’.
To be fair to them, a part of the Pont Des Arts did collapse last
summer under the weight of these stupid locks, so hey, maybe they’ve got
a point.
Will this break the heart of hundreds of thousands of couples across the world?
Paris doesn’t care.
Sure nothing last forever.....
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