The Musical Highway? Where zit!?

This is gonna sound like a lie... but it ain't. There's this road in the US (and two in Japan if you're wondering) that, when you drive over it, it makes a tune. Serious. However, we're just in time to miss the last bus, man. 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.

The residents of Lancaster are not digging it though. See, the road is only meant to send the tune via vibrations up into your car... but local ressies are saying that 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. Ain't that always the way?! The Man paves over the groove...

The response to the new grooves in Avenue K was immediate with people razzing their cars over it and laughing like drains. However...

"I think it's terrible because it keeps me awake at night," Lancaster resident Donna Martin told the Daily Breeze newspaper. "You can kind of tell it's music, but it's not any tune or notes. It's a scratchy sound, a high-pitch drone."

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)... here's a VIDJO.