How About Roads That Sing?

[Jim Koepke]

The theory is it will keep traveler's speed down:

Is it just me or have other folks imagined music when driving over the various bumps glued to the road?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN8eEOz7PeY ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN8eEOz7PeY

There is also one in Lancaster, California with a part from William Tell.

jtk

[Dan Hunkele]

Hope no one lives nearby and has to listen to that all day and all night.

[Lee DeRaud]

There is also one in Lancaster, California with a part from William Tell.I've driven that road...once. I pity any poor bugger who has to use it for his daily commute, and I'd love to know how usage of that stretch changed as the locals fled to alternate routes.

[Lee Schierer]

There is also a singing road in New Mexico that sings America the Beautiful. You have to drive at just the right speed with the passenger side tires on the strips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgizA_vDlzs

[Perry Hilbert Jr]

30 years ago, near Williamsport Maryland, the west bound side of I-70 was (I believe the term is) "scrabbled" to avoid slippery conditions during freezing rain. The result was different patches of frequency of grooves. At 65 MPH, it sounded like a person humming horribly off key and it went one for four or five miles.

[Frederick Skelly]

There is also a singing road in New Mexico that sings America the Beautiful. You have to drive at just the right speed with the passenger side tires on the strips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgizA_vDlzs

I wonder if that's the same the one Jim linked to?

I'm with @Lee DeRaud - the novelty would get old pretty quick. Hope the lane is wide enough that you don't have to run over the rumble strips that cause it to sing. And OMG, what if your home was within earshot of that road?

[Jim Koepke]

Maybe they should try a little Simon and Garfunkel, "Slow Down Your Moving Too Fast, Gotta Make the Morning Last… "

They could make it sound like sirens. That might get people to slow down.

jtk

[Bill Dufour]

Or the giant xylophone in the Japanese forest.
Bil lD


https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=L2BWrmNhyXU

[Frederick Skelly]

Or the giant xylone in the Japanese forest.
Bil lD


https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=L2BWrmNhyXU

THAT was pretty dang neat Bill. Thanks for posting.

[Lee DeRaud]

Hope the lane is wide enough that you don't have to run over the rumble strips that cause it to sing. And OMG, what if your home was within earshot of that road?As I recall, the one in Lancaster was lane-wide lateral grooves, so no avoiding it. OTOH, it was well away from any residences.

[John K Jordan]

I hope no one starts using them to feed advertisements to drivers.

[Bruce Page]

Jim, I’ll have to check it out next time I head that way. It’s only about 8 miles from the house.

[Jim Koepke]

Bill, the xylophone is fantastic.

jtk

[Curt Harms]

I hope no one starts using them to feed advertisements to drivers.

Don't even suggest it .........

[Rick Potter]

As I remember it, the road near Lancaster was done that way partially because there were so many accidents on it. It is a desert road, which has a lot of traffic and speeders, connecting two major highways.

It also had a lot of night time accidents because of people falling asleep.

[Matt Schrum]

If you do a bit of searching, there have been a few "musical roads", some for safety, at least one for a commercial for Honda Civics. General consensus of the locals is that they are annoying and terrible to have nearby. Artical even mentioned drivers going at twice the speed limit to see how the tunes play at double speed.

BBC: Dutch 'singing road' closed after neighbours' complaintshttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43725796