Tulsa’s Route 66 musical road has arrived, with a taxpayer price tag of $110K

The cost of the vibration strips that play “This Land is Your Land” along the Southwest Boulevard Bridge just west of downtown breaks down to about $5,800 per second of music.

But you’ll only hear the 19 seconds of the Woody Guthrie anthem if you follow these directions exactly: You must be driving in the bridge’s middle lane cruising west to east into downtown going exactly 35 miles per hour.

The total taxpayer-funded project cost $110,000 with $90,000 from the Oklahoma Route 66 Commission, part of the state Department of Commerce, and $20,000 from the City of Tulsa…

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