SO ROMANCE is dead in York! The “lovelocks” have been removed from the Millennium Bridge (The Press, July 21).

We have just returned from a holiday in Europe and the locks are everywhere, especially in Germany. We thought this a wonderful idea. You fall in love, buy a lock and have your names and date engraved on it, lock it on a bridge and throw the key in the river. A symbol of everlasting love.

The council in its wisdom claims that “the weight of the locks could compromise the safety and durability of a bridge”. What poppycock! Three hundred locks weigh approximately 13 to 14 stone – the weight of an average young man.

An alternative to removing the locks is to install a turnstile at each end of the bridge to monitor the number of people crossing the bridge at one time (preferably weighing less that 14 stone each). This would ensure that the bridge was not in danger of collapsing. Talk about health and safely gone mad!

Jenny Hilton, Holgate Lodge Drive, Holgate, York.

 

DOES anyone know. what has happened to the padlocks on the millennium bridge? We put one on last year to mark a special occasion, but now it and all the others have disappeared. Why?

On another subject, where do all the “not in service” buses go? You can see them all over York at any time of day or night, they are creating unnecessary pollution, but providing no service.

Finally, the geese! They are a problem and it will not go away on its own. Perhaps we could put them on all the empty buses, using the missing padlocks to keep them in. Now there’s a thought!

Dave Taylor, Eastfield Avenue, Haxby, York.