n recent years, many tourist couples have taken to attaching padlocks (love locks) with their first names written or engraved on them to the railing or the grate on the side of the bridge, then throwing the key into the Seine river below, as a romantic gesture.[1] This gesture is said to represent a couples committed love.[2] The City of Paris has not yet adopted a definitive policy on how to deal with this new fad. The French police have been known to patrol this bridge to stop keys from being thrown into the river. File:Pont des Arts - video.ogv tourists on the Pont des Arts In March 2014, two American women living in Paris launched an online no-love-locks campaign to remove the padlocks from the bridge. They say that the bridge became physically damaged by the weight of the locks (93 metric tons of metal), by the rust that passes onto the River Seine and by the environmental damage to the river from the keys that are thrown in and rusting. The campaign received more than 1600 signatures in one month.[3] In June 2014, part of the parapet on the bridge collapsed under the weight of all of the padlocks that had been attached to it.[4] In June 2014, a Parisian student published more than 40,100 photos of the bridges love locks on a website. By clicking on different parts of the bridge, people can find the love locks they attached. Vous les Europeens vous connaissez certainement le Pont des Arts avec les lockets dAmoureux a Paris......
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:31:05 +0000
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