A highway near the village of Jelsum which plays music when driven on has annoyed many residents.
A highway in the Netherlands plays music when driven on. (Reuters pic)
AMSTERDAM: Take the highway past the Dutch village of Jelsum and the road will play you a tune.
Created by strategically-laid “rumble strips” as a way of livening up journeys across the flat landscape, the novelty has worn thin for locals who say the constant droning melody is driving them mad.
The tune is created when car tyres drive over the strips, which are usually deployed by the side of major roads to warn drivers they are straying off course.
If driven on at the correct speed of 60 kilometres per hour, the road will play the anthem of the province of Friesland, located in the northern Netherlands.
But it is loud and the sound travels, and locals say the musical road had created a never-ending cacophony that keeps them awake at night.
“Last Saturday night the taxis were driving from Leeuwarden to Stiens and on the way back, they tried to go across the lines as quickly as possible and we had the anthem played all night at high speed,” said local resident Ria Jansma.
The Friesland authority has agreed to remove the rumble strips later this week, local newspaper Leeuwarder Courant reported.
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