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The ‘Love Lock Bridge’ is no more </3. Earlier this week Melbourne City Council declared war on love by sending in workers to remove the thousands of locks clipped to the Southbank bridge’s drooping steel cables. 

Now you can finally feel freed from the memories of that night when you thought it would be a great idea to declare your unbreakable love for first serious girlfriend by buying a lock, writing both your names on it, attaching it to the bridge and then throwing the key into the murky depths of the Yarra.

The council cited safety concerns around the sides of the bridge, as well as the impending renovation of parts of the bridge, as the reasons for the removal of the padlocks and subsequent destruction of love.

According to the Age over 20,000 locks have been removed from the bridge and it has not yet been decided what will be done with them; although suggestions include, making them into a sculpture, melting them down for scrap or incorporating them into Ponyfish Island, the bar under the bridge.

Despite being an exceedingly uncreative and unoriginal display of love the ‘Love Lock bridge did have a certain amount of DIY style charm and I have no doubt that the bridge will fill up even faster now it has been cleared.

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