Calif. brings back music-making asphalt

LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — The folks who silenced the nation's first "musical road" are singing a different tune.

Workers on Wednesday began carving grooves on Avenue G that will produce notes of the "William Tell Overture" when cars drive over them.

The high desert city north of Los Angeles placed the grooves on another road, Avenue K, last month for a Honda commercial. The quarter-mile strip was engineered to play the notes — better known as the theme for The Lone Ranger— when motorists in Honda Civics hit them at 55 mph. the rest