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where is the place where you put locks on a fence
The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris where in 2008 tourists began attaching padlocks as a sign of love.
Have tourists putting locks on the Pont des Arts bridge been a problem?
By 2014, concern was being expressed about the possible damage the weight of the locks was doing to the structure of the bridge.
Was the issue regarding the Pont des Arts bridge locks resolved?
In August 2014, the Paris Mayor's Office began to say publicly that they wanted to encourage tourists to take selfies instead of leaving love locks.

Question: Did the government try other methods
Self-contained rewrite: did the paris government try other methods to combat the locks on the pont des arts