{"id":22846,"date":"2020-01-28T09:18:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=22846"},"modified":"2020-01-28T09:18:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:18:54","slug":"roads-that-are-built-to-play-music-when-you-drive-over-them-yes-singing-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2020\/01\/28\/roads-that-are-built-to-play-music-when-you-drive-over-them-yes-singing-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"ROADS that are built to play MUSIC when you drive over them!!! Yes, SINGING ROADS!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"761\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Musical-Road-Lancaster-CA.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Musical-Road-Lancaster-CA.png 1020w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Musical-Road-Lancaster-CA-640x477.png 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Musical-Road-Lancaster-CA-768x573.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\n<p>Today I learned that there are ROADS designed with special grooves to play MUSIC when you drive over them!! YES, SINGING ROADS!!!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one in Lancaster, California that (sort of) plays the finale of the William Tell Overture, aka the <em>Lone Ranger<\/em> theme song. This musical road was originally built to replace an earlier one created in Lancaster for a Honda TV ad. After gaining international recognition, that first musical road became too popular and the noise bothered the neighboring community. PLUS, it was OUT of TUNE!!<\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Honda Civic Commercial: Grooves\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sJFGacuxcSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>So, they paved it over and built another one. Unfortunately, the new one is ALSO out of tune due to poor engineering! YouTuber Tom Scott explains what happened:<\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why California&#039;s musical road sounds terrible\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ef93WmlEho0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/musical-highway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">there&#8217;s also one in New Mexico<\/a>. It was built as a way to get drivers to slow down to 45 mph&#8230; because it &#8220;sings&#8221; &#8220;America the Beautiful&#8221; IN TUNE at that speed!<\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Mexico &quot;Musical Highway&quot; Plays America the Beautiful\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rgizA_vDlzs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s one in Alabama, near Auburn University, that plays the first seven notes of &#8220;War Eagle,&#8221; the school&#8217;s fight song!<\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Musical Road: The Auburn Fight Song on Pavement\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T-NxlJYATSw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And these special musical rumble strips are not just in the USA&#8230; here&#8217;s two you can find on Japan roads!<\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Musical Road in Japan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y_xvfZUqAtg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Melody Road - Mt. Haruna, Gunma Prefecture, Japan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AF9DYjkHXAE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s singing road plays &#8220;Mary Had a Little Lamb&#8221;!!!<\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Singing Road  in South Korea\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hrVuS1ht9rg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Hungary&#8217;s is the latest one, <a href=\"https:\/\/forbes.hu\/a-jo-elet\/mar-a-67-es-ut-dallamat-jatssza-a-67-es-ut\/#\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">built in 2019<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M\u00e1r zen\u00e9l a 2x2 s\u00e1vos, \u00faj 67-es \u00fat\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/errAbdHWrY4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>There WAS one in the Netherlands but it closed because it was too noisy for the residents!!!<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/6JMrL2EZa_g<\/p>\n<p>The one in Denmark, called the Asphaltophone, is the world&#8217;s first&#8230; created in 1995 as a musical instrument by two artists. They used <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Botts%27_dots\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Botts&#8217; dots<\/a> instead of grooved rumble strips!<\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Asphaltophone - road melodies\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ou-Xy5OI1kc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Singing roads \u2014 HOW COOL!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned that there are ROADS designed with special grooves to play MUSIC when you drive over them!! YES, SINGING ROADS!!! 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