TRAVEL | ENVIRONMENT
Why There is Nothing Romantic About Love Locks on Bridges
And why you should stop this trend
A young couple walks up on the bridge. The sun is shining and the skies are blue as they look at each other in love. The guy pulls out a lock they have written their initials on. He fixes the lock on the railing of the bridge and they both hold one key in their hands. With smiling hands, the keys fly off and into the water down below.
A few weeks later, their relationship breaks apart. So does the fish in the river who accidentally ate a small key while trying to feed on some greens. And the bridge is aching under the additional weight of not one but thousands of locks tied to its railings.
Yes, this story is fictional but not entirely. The first part has happened a million times around the world where love birds manifest their love to each other by tying a lock to a random bridge and throwing both keys into the river with the sign of their love lasting forever.
And the environmental damage of thousands of keys at the bottom of rivers and lakes isn’t fictional either. Nor is the additional weight bridges have to suffer under due to a cause of this, excuse my language, stupid trend.
