San Francisco residents are complaining about loud, whistling music coming from the Golden Gate Bridge. It's been described as deafening to those crossing the bridge, and annoying to people for miles around. Is it the scream of a banshee haunting the bridge?
Nope—the eerie sound you're hearing from the Golden Gate Bridge is in fact the result of new sidewalk railing slats, just installed, meant to curb the wind. Funny thing about wind: when it passes through certain open spaces, it creates a hum. This is how all reed instruments work, and it's something that the engineers of said sidewalk panels apparently forgot to take into consideration.
And, because it spans a very windy gap across the Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge is now effectively a giant orange wheezing kazoo.
Commuters and nearby residents will be glad to hear that there are no plans to fix the problem. Hear more in videos posted at KQED.
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san francisco is a scary place with scary people but mostly it's just a stain on the map of the USA
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/golden-gate-bridge-san-francisco-sings Paolo Cosulich-Schwartz, a Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation District spokesperson, said the sounds stemmed from long-planned wind retrofitting.“The new musical tones coming from the bridge are a known and inevitable phenomenon that stem from our wind retrofit project during very high winds. The wind retrofit project is designed to make the Bridge more aerodynamic under high wind conditions and is necessary to ensure the safety and structural integrity of the Bridge for generations to come,” Cosulich-Schwartz said.“We knew going into the handrail replacement that the bridge would sing during exceptionally high winds from the west, as we saw yesterday. We are pleased to see the new railing is allowing wind to flow more smoothly across the bridge
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Read further. They have said the sound is an expected side effect
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obviously ghosts
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