“Music Road“ Set to Open in Beijing

An innovative new project will see music play to drivers who drive within the speed limit along a 300-meter stretch of asphalt road in Beijing’s south-western Fengtai district. Designers have made rumble strips on the road that help cause car tires to play the music from “Ode to the Motherland“, as long as drivers follow the speed limit of 40 kmh. “We have small grooves built into the road surface, positioned apart with different sizes of gap according to the melody of the song. These ’rumble strips’ cau