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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.
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Hope no one lives nearby and has to listen to that all day and all night.
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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.Originally Posted by Jim Koepke
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"Design"? Possibly. "Intelligent"? Sure doesn't look like it from this angle.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Or the giant xylophone in the Japanese forest.
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THAT was pretty dang neat Bill. Thanks for posting.
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As I recall, the one in Lancaster was lane-wide lateral grooves, so no avoiding it. OTOH, it was well away from any residences.
Yoga class makes me feel like a total stud, mostly because I'm about as flexible as a 2x4.
"Design"? Possibly. "Intelligent"? Sure doesn't look like it from this angle.
We used to be hunter gatherers. Now we're shopper borrowers.
The three most important words in the English language: "Front Towards Enemy".
The world makes a lot more sense when you remember that Butthead was the smart one.
You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much ammo.
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I hope no one starts using them to feed advertisements to drivers.
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Jim, I’ll have to check it out next time I head that way. It’s only about 8 miles from the house.
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Bill, the xylophone is fantastic.
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Don't even suggest it .........
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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.
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