Workers on Wednesday began carving grooves on Avenue G that will produce notes of the “William Tell Overture” when cars drive over them.
The high desert city north of Los Angeles placed the grooves on another road, Avenue K, last month for a Honda commercial. The quarter-mile strip was engineered to play the notes — better known as the theme for “The Lone Ranger” — when motorists in Honda Civics hit them at 55 mph.
It was believed to be the first such musical road in the United States, although there are others in Japan, South Korea and Holland.
The city paved over that stretch two weeks later after neighbors complained the noise was annoying and kept them awake.
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Now they’re reconstructing the road elsewhere because although some residents hated it, others really liked it. I’d think it would get old fast.