Officials from Paris City Hall have placed plastic panels in order to prevent tourists from attaching love padlocks on the Pont Des Art bridge, Sept. 21, 2014, in Paris.

Paris started removing padlocks from the Pont des Arts bridge on Monday in an attempt to end the tourist tradition of “love locks” on the promenade. CNN values your feedback 1.

The Pont des Arts in Paris is buckling under the weight of couples' love -- literally. Locks lovers attach to the bridge as a tribute to their commitment caused a chunk of fencing to fall off Sunday.

Besides the Pont des Arts, several Paris bridges are getting bombarded with padlocks, often marring classic views of the Seine River or the Île de la Cité, Reuters reports.

City authorities in Paris are removing engraved padlocks left by lovers on some bridges over the Seine river. On Monday, 700,000 locks were taken off just one bridge. Officials say the romantic ...

Shortly after 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 8, a railing of the Pont des Arts—a pedestrian bridge in Paris that spans the Seine River near the Louvre—buckled under the weight of thousands of padlocks.

The famous love locks bridge in Paris, Pont des Arts, where couples go to secure a padlock with their names on it onto the bridge before throwing the key into the Seine river as a sign of their ...

No Love Lost In Paris As 'Love Locks' To Be Cut From Bridge : The Two-Way For years, lovers have placed padlocks on the bridge and tossed the key into the Seine river as a symbol of their undying ...

Lovers visiting Paris will soon have to find a new way of expressing their affections now that the city has decided to remove locks from its famed Pont des Arts, aka "Love Lock," bridge.

The romance of love locks took a tumble in June when fencing on Paris’ Pont des Arts crumbled a bit from the weight of all that love. Matt Ryken thinks he has the answer: a $20 virtual padlock ...