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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Nearly one million locks on a bridge in Paris love will be "death"

Nearly 1 million locks on the bridge famous love in the city of Paris will be government removed to ensure safety. However, perhaps this is rather sad news for many couples.
 Love bridge Pont des Arts is the ideal destination for lovers
Pont des Arts is famous across the world when it was known as called "bridge of love". It is the pedestrian bridge located astride the Seine, connecting the Institut de France and the square courtyard of the Louvre Museum.
Each year, thousands of couples from all over the world together to walk the famous bridges and hanging locks of love on a fence. Show 150m long bridge was covered with "memories of love" of the couple.
 The bridge was weighed down by the weight of nearly 1 million locks
However, the next 1/6 days, the city government will embark on removing nearly 1 million locks. The decision was taken to ensure the safety of visitors and also "liberated" the bridge while "buckling" enormous weight burden. It is reported that 1 million locks hanging on the bridge weighs about 45 tons.
 A couple of his locks tied up bridge
Spokesperson of city government declared: "Locks of love affect the heritage of Paris and creates the risk of insecurity for the people".
Earlier, the government in Paris has opened a campaign to encourage tourists photographic memories, instead of hanging up the keys but failed. When the lock is removed, residents and tourists can still tie the ribbon on the bridge as a keepsake for love.
 Walk the famous bridge
Looking ahead, full steel fence will no longer locks
Reportedly, in the future, steel mesh panels at the sides of the bridge are also prestige in the picture.
Many other cities around the world are "headache" because players love. The government of Venice (Italy) and New York (USA) is looking to remove to stop the visitors tied up the lock.
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