Clanking with love: Did you know Houston has its very own love lock bridge? - KPRC2 HTX Houston Texas
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.
For better or worse, love locks are alive and well in many other cities around the world -- including here in Houston. H-Town actually has two popular love lock locales for those bent on proclaiming their undying love, hardware in hand -- though there are far and above more love locks affixed to one than the other.. The bridge perpetually shimmers with a smattering of love locks which dangle from its chain-link fence.
“To me, if it’s not a hindrance to the health and safety of people, and this is one of those things that’s kind of special between two people, we don’t want to stand in the way of that unless it’s problematic for the bridge,” said Michael Isermann, deputy director of facilities management and development for the city’s parks and recreation department, which oversees to Rosemont Bridge.
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