CALIFORNIA TO PAVE OVER SINGING ROAD

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CNN reports on the silencing of a special musical road. Maybe SoundWalk can do something like this next year? Details below, and don’t miss the adorable video above.

LANCASTER, California (AP) — Residents of northern Los Angeles County are not grooving to this music.

Lancaster city officials said this week that they’re paving over a quarter-mile strip of asphalt grooved to play the William Tell Overture when auto tires speed over it.

The road was completed this month as part of an ad campaign for Honda. It’s engineered to play the overture — also known as the theme to “The Lone Ranger” — at perfect pitch for motorists driving Honda Civics at 55 mph.

But neighbors aren’t amused. One says the road music sounds like a high-pitched drone. Another says it keeps him and his wife up at night.

Lancaster officials plan to pave over the grooves Tuesday.

The poor road didn’t last very long. This Daily News article details its short but ambitous career:

The roadwork was completed Sept. 5. Soon after that, people started complaining.

The city had been told at the beginning that only motorists inside their cars would experience the sound, but the noise carried farther than expected, city officials said.

“Was it historic? Yes. Maybe the wrong location? Obviously,” East said. “We thought it was far enough away.”