{"id":76472,"date":"2026-02-23T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/23\/mumbai-india-first-musical-road-resident-reactions"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:00:08","slug":"drives-me-crazy-mumbai-residents-plead-for-respite-from-musical-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76472","title":{"rendered":"Drives me crazy: Mumbai residents plead for respite from \u2018musical road\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorway stretch plays music as a safety feature but those close to it say \u2018intrusive\u2019 noise is constant and distressing<\/p>\n<p>Residents of one of India\u2019s most upmarket neighbourhoods say the country\u2019s first \u201cmusical road\u201d has turned their daily lives into a nightmare soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>A stretch of Mumbai\u2019s recently opened Coastal Road seafront expressway has been engineered to play the pulsating Oscar-winning tune Jai Ho from the movie Slumdog Millionaire when vehicles drive on it at lower speeds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/23\/mumbai-india-first-musical-road-resident-reactions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorway stretch plays music as a safety feature but those close to it say \u2018intrusive\u2019 noise is constant and distressingResidents of one of India\u2019s most upmarket neighbourhoods say the country\u2019s first \u201cmusical road\u201d has turned their daily lives into a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,454,807,334,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-mumbai","category-road-safety","category-road-transport","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76473,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76472\/revisions\/76473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}