Love Locks on Southbank Bridge - Save Them Return Them

07/12/2015

07/12/2015

A lone Love Lock

13/07/2015

Australia regulates the behaviour of its many idiots, spoiling the fun of others who could be trusted to be responsible.

16/06/2015

http://www.southbanklocalnews.com.au/editions/article/love-lock-campaign_4209/

Southbank resident Kevin Neville has initiated an online campaign in response to the City of Melbourne’s decision to remove more than 20,000 locks.

03/06/2015

If you believe in the cause please "LIKE" this FB page and get your friends to do the same. If we have enough of us on board the Council may start to listen.

27/05/2015

Should Melbourne City Council fight this newly created tradition or should it compromise and embrace it?

Its happening all over the World as you can see in this article.

http://www.dangerous-business.com/2015/02/love-locks-around-world/

Already there is 100 Love Locks on the Southbank Bridge after the Council removed 20,000 Love Locks on Friday.

Listen to the people Melbourne City Council.

Love Locks on Southbank Bridge - Save Them Return Them

No one is entirely sure where the tradition of lovers attaching padlocks to bridges began — but since the early 2000s, tens (maybe even...

26/05/2015

Here are photo's of Melbourne City Council's recent events held on the Southbank Bridge. The annual "White Night' with hundreds and hundreds of people on the Bridge at anyone time along with the substantial lighting equipment. Also the Bridge on Valentines Day where the Council are encouraging the Love Lock theme.
The removed Love Locks are a fraction of the weight which the Councils "White Night" places on the Bridge. But having the Council's "White Night" Event on the Bridge is ok, but the Public's Love Locks is not!
What do you think?
If the bridge in strong enough to cope with the Council's Events wouldnt it be strong enough for the Public's Love Locks?
Mr Doyle, are the public being mislead in your reasoning removing the Love Locks?
Are we being lied too?
Love Locks on Southbank Bridge - Save Them Return Them

23/05/2015

On Monday the 18 May 2015 the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Robert Doyle, announced that approximately 20,000 Love Locks placed on the Southbank Bridge, Melbourne, where to be removed.

Two days later they were gone.

In doing so the Melbourne City Council directly effected 40,000 people.

On Thursday the 21 May 2015 a single father of two little girls, Kevin Neville, sent a letter to the Lord Mayor indicating that his little girls and himself would like their Love Locks back.
http://m.theage.com.au/x/gh6aun

The Age newspaper ran an article on that day about the letter.

The Lord Mayor's reasons for removing the Love Locks were in relation to the Council's concerns that the Bridge's structural integrity was potentially affected and that its safety was being compromised.

It's been highlighted to the Lord Mayor that the Southbank Bridge's cabling sag can be eliminated by retensioning which is a simple procedure. Furthermore the Council itself holds events that place a greater structural effect on the Bridge, such as the annual "White Night", in which thousands of people congregate on the Bridge at anyone time along with substantial lighting equipment.

Therefore...... are the public being mislead?

It's not so much the cost of ones Love Lock taken..... it's the misleading information and the way the process was carried out. Major concern is the lack of opportunity the people had in responding to this issue.

If you would like the Love Locks to be returned to Southbank Bridge....please like this page.

With enough support the Lord Mayor may change his mind!

A father of two young girls' heartfelt letter to lord mayor Robert Doyle, protesting the removal of the Yarra footbridge's "love lock" padlocks.