California Musical Road Told To Cease and Desist
Written by OddCulture on September 22nd, 2008 in bizarre, travel.
Get a load of this: there’s a road in Lancaster, CA that plays “The Lone Ranger” for you when you drive over it at 55mph. There are special grooves in the road and your tires are the “needle”.
A section of Avenue K in a Californian desert town uses grooves cut into the road surface to play the Lone Ranger theme to cars driving along it.
But some Lancaster residents are not amused. They say the noise from the road sounds more like a discordant screech than the Rossini overture.
Officials have bowed to their views and have agreed to pave over the grooves.
The musical road was the idea of car-maker Honda. The firm said the grooves in the road were engineered to play the overture at perfect pitch for motorists driving Honda Civics at 55mph (88km/h).
