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There is a new bridge being built in Portland for light rail and bikes to get over the Willamette River. They were having problems though, trying to slow down bikers who would come flying down the steep landing of the bridge into heavy pedestrian traffic. In addition to signs and paint, they are going to cut grooves into the path, spaced just so, to play a song when bike tires roll over them. The chosen track is SImon and Garfunkel’s “The 59th Street Bridge (Feelin Groovy)“.
They got the idea from this Honda commercial. It’s an ill idea, even if I wouldn’t want to live next to that road.
I heard about it from @portlandafoot.
P.S. I’d have chosen Ye’s “Drive Slow.”
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