Route 66 gets new tune with musical road in this Oklahoma city

Route 66 is getting a new tune.

In March, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, unveiled the state’s first musical road in conjunction with this year’s Route 66 Centennial. Designed as a rumble strip, the stretch of musical road produces specific musical notes when a vehicle passes over top at a set speed. Tulsa’s musical road on the Southwest Boulevard Bridge, plays “This Land is Your Land” by Oklahoma native Woody Guthrie, chosen by the city.

Tulsa’s musical road is the second of its kind along Route 66, the first installed this year for the Route 66 Centennial. The first musical road on Route 66 was installed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2014…

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