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The love lock bridge stretching over Allen Parkway.
For years, lovestruck Parisians and tourists alike had affixed locks, often inscribed with their initials, names or brief messages, to the railing and fencing along Paris’s Pont des Arts, before tossing the keys into the Seine River below. The gesture was said to symbolize a couple’s everlasting love.
But beauty ultimately turned to menace and the city’s love affair with the practice soon soured. By 2014, the bridge had become inundated with locks and a section of the railing collapsed under the weight of so many declarations of love. Citing aesthetic and structural concerns, Paris officials removed some 700,000 padlocks, weighing an estimated 45 tons, and replaced the bridge’s fencing with padlock-proof plexiglass panels. Au revoir love locks!