Does anyone enjoy the sounds your tires make on the grooved concrete highways???

[PHLBOS]

I do enjoy different sounds of tires on pavement.

Not to veer too far off-topic; but I used to enjoy the hum that snow tires make while riding on pavement.

[vdeane]

Me too.  Especially since most of my highway clinching in the north country was in the winter, so I have many fond memories of driving with snow tires.

[Mamba205]

I do enjoy different sounds of tires on pavement.

Not to veer too far off-topic; but I used to enjoy the hum that snow tires make while riding on pavement.

I rarely hear snow tires, because no one uses them here in southern Illinois.

[Mamba205]

I know what you mean about steel grates.  Drive the New Hope- Lambertiville Free Bridge on NJ and PA Route's 179 and you still have it.

Also on old US 17 where it crosses the canal in Chesapeake, VA before heading south along the narrow highway into NC.  I believe now the part that still is US 17 has been widened now, but it would make that hum.

Years ago, near Hershey, PA, PA 743 had two bridges across a creek that made the rhythm that were replaced with a new alignment for PA 743 to avoid a 90 degree turn it made south of the old bridges.  Of course, the new alignment is modern with a concrete deck across the creek.

I especially love drawbridge decks.  Some have bass sound while others are high pitched.

If they cut grooves into the concrete with a wide spacing, the sound your tires would make would somewhat imitate the sounds of your tires on a metal grated bridge. This would be a good idea when those old grated bridges need to be replaced with concrete decks. You could still get that lovely hum.

[kphoger]

No.

By which I mean, I do not like the sound my tires made on the grooved concrete highways.  I like the silky-smooth quietness of a brand-new blacktop highway.  The worst concrete growl is SB I-35 southwest of Olathe, KS.

[Mamba205]

No.

By which I mean, I do not like the sound my tires made on the grooved concrete highways.  I like the silky-smooth quietness of a brand-new blacktop highway.  The worst concrete growl is SB I-35 southwest of Olathe, KS.

I think road noise is part of a road's character. One person's noise is another's music.

[hm insulators]

I do miss the old clunk, clunk, clunk, on Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando.

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Try driving the freeways in Los Angeles and San Diego.

[seicer]

I miss going airborne at 80 MPH on the 35-year-old concrete pavement on I-64 in Rowan County, Kentucky.

[formulanone]

One of these days, some company will pay to have grooves cut in the road that sing to you like an old LP record.

Old news:
http://youtu.be/BFlkWV45oYE
http://youtu.be/hIAaYfC3-rU?t=36s

I discovered that the entrance road from Williams Avenue (LA 49) to the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans makes a really odd sound when you're driving on it. Two trips in different vehicles, with different types of tires...the result is rather dissonant and spooky, yet sounded very similar. Looks to be recently paved.

I'm not a real big fan of "clunky" pavement/concrete that lasts more than a mile or two. As for noise, I can turn up the volume on the radio.

[kphoger]

As for noise, I can turn up the volume on the radio.

I'd still rather not have to shout at each other to carry on a conversation.

[colinstu]

I do miss the old clunk, clunk, clunk, on Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando.

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Try driving the freeways in Los Angeles and San Diego.

Or driving over the ~10 expansion joints on south-bound I94/43 leaving the Marquette interchange in Milwaukee... WHEW those are rough on the tires and noisy as hell.

[PHLBOS]

I especially love drawbridge decks.  Some have bass sound while others are high pitched.

In Salem-Beverly, MA; the old Essex Bridge (MA 1A, which was replaced several years ago by a taller, fixed span) was a swing-type drawbridge.  When one drove on it; one heard 3 sounds, 2 of them being the approach-span grates and the 3rd being the concrete at the drawbridge swing-base.  Paraphrased sound: Oooooo, Ahhhhh, Oooooo.

[Mamba205]

One of these days, some company will pay to have grooves cut in the road that sing to you like an old LP record.

Old news:
http://youtu.be/BFlkWV45oYE
http://youtu.be/hIAaYfC3-rU?t=36s

I discovered that the entrance road from Williams Avenue (LA 49) to the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans makes a really odd sound when you're driving on it. Two trips in different vehicles, with different types of tires...the result is rather dissonant and spooky, yet sounded very similar. Looks to be recently paved.

I'm not a real big fan of "clunky" pavement/concrete that lasts more than a mile or two. As for noise, I can turn up the volume on the radio.

The pavement on Airport Road looks to be ungrooved, so it must be some pavement unevenness that is causing the tires to hum, or it could even be the pavement itself resonating.

The grooves on some of the concrete roads in Illinois causes your tires produce a very strange sound. You really have to hear it to understand it. It gives me goosebumps. It's especially weird listening to it from afar, and the cars are going different speeds.

[Laura]

I have always equated the sound of driving on concrete as a horse galloping. The different spacing on different roads determines the speed of the horse