Golden Gate Bridge Starts To ‘Sing’ After Design Fix

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Golden Gate Bridge Starts To ‘Sing’ After Design Fix (theguardian.com) 14

Posted by BeauHD on Monday June 08, 2020 @07:23PM from the giant-wheezing-kazoo dept.

San Francisco’s famous Golden Gate Bridge has started “singing” following recent changes to bicycle-path railings that appear to make music as the wind blows through them, residents have reported. The Guardian reports: 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.” Others who posted videos of the novel sound appeared more at ease, however. One described it as “so peaceful.” Another said: “So crazy but also kinda beautiful!!” “We can hear this in our house more than three miles away from the bridge. It’s crazy making,” one user wrote Friday evening.

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- Re: (Score:1)
  by YetAnotherDrew ( 664604 ) writes:
  It’s singing, too. Possibly some kind of dental work.
- Re: (Score:2)
  by NateFromMich ( 6359610 ) writes:
  I for one am glad to see that San Francisco is tackling the important issues and leaving less important things, like shit all over the streets, for later.
  Perhaps the bridge is singing about all the shit on the streets?
SInging may be ok (Score:2)
by ISoldat53 ( 977164 ) writes:
as long as it doesn’t start dancing.
- Re: (Score:2)
  by Stormwatch ( 703920 ) writes:
  They tried that in the 40s, didn’t go so well.
Dark AF (Score:2)
by GameboyRMH ( 1153867 ) writes:
The world’s biggest suicide machine now emits eerie wailing sounds? Damn.
It has a name (Score:2)
by divide overflow ( 599608 ) writes:
Symphony for Bridge and Wind in A major.
“Singing” (Score:2)
by alvinrod ( 889928 ) writes:
From the summary:
“We can hear this in our house more than three miles away from the bridge. It’s crazy making,” one user wrote Friday evening.
Hats off to the clever bastard that managed to convince everyone that the noise pollution is “singing”. I know this is in San Francisco, but that sounds like something out of Madison Avenue.
- Re: (Score:2)
  by Anachronous Coward ( 6177134 ) writes:
  That would drive me batshit. I had to buy a white noise generator a couple years ago because some maniac near me installed a wind chime.
Suicide barrier (Score:2)
by edi_guy ( 2225738 ) writes:
I wonder if the new, more aerodynamic railings were required because of the suicide barriers/nets being installed?(https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/13/21020600/golden-gate-bridge-suicide-barrier-delayed-2023) . Increased windage due to the barriers means needing to reduce it elsewhere.

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