India will get first ‘musical path’; Mumbai’s Coastal Highway performs ‘Jai Ho’ for motorists

Mumbai’s Coastal Highway has change into the primary ‘musical path’ in India with the set up of particular rumble strips that produce the tune of the Oscar-winning track, ‘Jai Ho’, when motorists drive over them at a chosen velocity.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his deputy Eknath Shinde inaugurated the stretch on Wednesday.

That is the fifth such street on the earth and the primary of its type in India, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) said.

BMC officers mentioned grooves and rumble strips of particular dimensions and spacing have been embedded within the northbound carriageway of the Dharamveer Swarajya Rakshak Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Coastal Highway.

“When automobiles move over these strips at 60-80 kmph on the ‘Sangeet Marg’ from Nariman Level to Worli, sound waves generated by the friction of the wheels permit passengers to listen to the melody of the patriotic track ‘Jai Ho’ from the movie Slumdog Millionaire,” a BMC official mentioned.

To date, comparable ideas have been carried out in Hungary, Japan, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates, however that is the primary such innovation in India, the official added.

Signboards have been positioned at 500 metres, 100 metres, and 60 metres earlier than the musical stretch to alert motorists and inform them concerning the velocity required for the expertise.

Throughout the inauguration, Mr. Fadnavis and Mr. Shinde skilled the musical stretch.

Hungarian expertise

“The idea relies on Hungarian expertise. The intention is to implement the idea of Sangeet Marg in future as properly,” Mr. Fadnavis mentioned.

Mr. Shinde prompt implementing it on a pilot foundation on the Samruddhi Expressway that connects Mumbai and Nagpur.

Consul Common of Hungary Ferenc Jari, former Shiv Sena MP Rahul Shewale, and Further Municipal Commissioner (Japanese Suburbs) Avinash Dhakne have been current on the inauguration.