They then went to the Norfolk Circuit Court and forced the Norfolk City Council to remove the remaining locks and to cease encouraging such locks.

In the United States, in Norfolk, Virginia, from 2015-2017, citizens removed many padlocks from a scenic pedestrian bridge over The Hague inlet in Ghent, a historic neighborhood in Norfolk.

Love padlocks attached to the railing of Corktown Footbridge

Love padlocks were removed from the Humber Bay Arch Bridge in Toronto, due to concerns over aesthetics and structural concerns if the Bridge were to become a love padlock destination.

On Vancouver Island, Canada, love padlocks appearing along the Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island, have caused controversy as some regard them as a distraction from nature.

In Toowoomba, Australia, love locks have been appearing at Picnic Point, a heritage-listed tourist attraction featuring a park and lookout at the top of the Great Dividing Range.

Around 22,000 love locks were reported to have been fixed to the railings, causing cables to sag.

On, council authorities in Melbourne, Australia, began removing love locks from Southgate footbridge due to safety concerns.

A bridge in Paris was mentioned by authorities as an example of an overloaded bridge, a probable reference to the Pont des Arts. Justifications given for the decision were the possibility of future threats to public safety from eventual overloading of the bridge with a mass of padlocks, and structural interference resulting from corrosion. Authorities in Canberra, Australia, decided in February 2015 to remove love locks from a bridge that was becoming a popular location to affix them, and from other locations in Canberra.Love locks in Suseong Lake, Daegu, South Korea However, in Rome, the ritual of affixing love padlocks to the bridge Ponte Milvio can be attributed to the 2006 book I Want You by Italian author Federico Moccia, who made a film adaptation in 2007. The reasons love padlocks started to appear vary between locations and in many instances are unclear.

In the rest of Europe, love padlocks started appearing in the early 2000s as a ritual. Īs young women from Vrnjačka Banja wanted to protect their own loves, they started writing down their names, with the names of their loved ones, on padlocks and affixing them to the railings of the bridge where Nada and Relja used to meet. Nada never recovered from that devastating blow, and after some time she died due to heartbreak from her unfortunate love. As a consequence, Relja and Nada broke off their engagement. After they committed to each other, Relja went to war in Greece, where he fell in love with a local woman from Corfu. A local schoolmistress named Nada fell in love with a Serbian officer named Relja. the Bridge of Love) in the spa town of Vrnjačka Banja. In 2014 the New York Times reported that the history of love padlocks dates back at least 100 years to a melancholic Serbian tale of World War I, with an attribution for the bridge Most Ljubavi (lit. Removing love locks at Charles Bridge in Prague

Padlock bridge