CA Concrete Bridge Deck Sound - I-5 Tehama County

Filmed 4/3/2021 depicting the Thomes (not Thomas, ik, ik) Creek bridge near Richfield, CA. Built in 2011, this was one of the last bridge decks textured using transverse tining in the state, that groundbreaking invention responsible for that savory scrumptious sound we all know and love.
RIP transverse bridge tining in CA, c. 1990s-2013 💔

[@freewayelliott3481]

Never knew a bridge sound like that would be on I-5. Ive been as far as Orland before.

[@Zsullivan27]

0:08 Sound like a chair scraping on concrete floors.

[@INACTIVEnoton24]

I started watching your channel in August 2020

[@yudi4595]

Wow, a robot Cow mooing for joy. 😂😂😂

[@zacharyyamashita8554]

Bad news I checked the street view of this Bridge and I checked on Google Maps and Caltrans completely resurfaced this Bridge with the silent sounding Polyester Concrete overlay 😐. Updated on January 2024.

[@brucejterwilliger5477]

California has some decent bridge deck sounds when the concrete has some decent "grooves" - the grooving technique is not the same compared to the east coast. However, I had a blast driving around the LA metro area early February and listening to California's version of highway "musical" pavement.

[@art_of_the_road]

I love the variety of grooved pavement sounds across the country. The 105 freeway (particularly near LAX) has the gold standard of remaining CA “musical” pavement IMO.

[@brucejterwilliger5477]

I-110 is pretty damn good too. I also enjoyed pavement sounds in the Riverside area as well. Drive wise, it was similar to the east coast for me. Felt like a race track the entire time and I loved every minute of the rushed/fast driving - it brought back great memories growing up in the DC area. I-5 between Sacramento and LA has plain concrete bridge decks and I found it to be rather boring from that perspective.

[@zacharyyamashita8554]

@@brucejterwilliger5477 Well most of the bridges in the Central Valley were built in the 60's and 70's when those portions of Interstate 5 opened, so they don't have much of a sound compared to the 80’s, 90's - 2000's bridges. I could care less if they all get polyester overlays.

[@eloc08]

I hope more transverse bridge tining in CA will still be used again! (because I think it's 'way' better than longitudinal)

[@eloc08]

But also, I think modern transverse began in 1993 starting with I-105.

[@art_of_the_road]

@@eloc08 ‘Modern’ CA transverse tining has been in use since the late 1980s, if not earlier, I believe. But the 105 was by far the most widespread and thorough use of it at that point.

[@zacharyyamashita8554]

@@art_of_the_road I still don't understand why most states have stopped using traverse texturing, I don't get it, Nevada isn't using it anymore either, and they're dampening all their bridge decks with oil(screen).

[@w-josh]

@@zacharyyamashita8554 I think Illinois is also starting to use tranverse now. Florida is one of the only states that I haven't seen changing it to something that either has no sound, or longitudinal. Georgia and Tennessee are using asphalt, probably because it's cheaper and they don't groove asphalt usually. If Florida changes their bridges, I'm gonna be very disappointed. Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Iowa are also changing to longitudinal

[@zacharyyamashita8554]

@@eloc08 I think Caltrans started using transverse texturing in the early 80’s.

[@RealMatthewMorgan]

0:27 Sounds like the raid horns in Minecraft lol.

[@Penguin-gj3zn]

Yep

[@tiffanynicholas6376]

Imagine going on this at night not knowing it’s there😅 but still sounds nice

[@UniqueStuff833]

the first one reminds me of I-83 in Maryland

[@eloc08]

I've heard some bridges in MD including that sound like this, besides their low-pitched screech.

[@Fade2005]

0:16 sounds like gta 4 theme song

[@eloc08]

And can you also upload the sounds from I-5 north to CA-91 west and south to east?

[@RubiksStars79327]

Sound like dinosaurs

[@bentleyharris-ey4hx]

Sounds like ace of spades on northbound

[@zacharyyamashita8554]

Hopefully they don't resurface this one with Polyester Concrete or Longitudinally microgroove it, that would suck. Oh by the way, the Lincoln Bypass CA 65 has some of the last traverse textured bridges in California, which opened in 2012. :)

[@eloc08]

Maybe the sound would come back if the polyester concrete tears apart.

[@brucejterwilliger5477]

@Zachary Yamashita Longitudinal grooving is the worst. A lot of states are adopting longitudinal grooving for resurfaced bridge decks or are using polyurethane bridge deck overlay musical pavement destroyer.

[@zacharyyamashita8554]

@@brucejterwilliger5477 No Idea Why. Nevada and Arizona are doing it now as well. How about they use that pavement destroyer on much older bridges, like the Golden Gate has asphalt that’s starting to crack and pothole up.

[@tomwujek4867]

A recent look at Google Maps shows that this bridge got an overlay and is now longitudinally grooved as of 2023.

[@tomwujek4867]

@@zacharyyamashita8554 Longitudinal grooving in federal highway research has better skid resistance compared to transverse and is much quieter.

[@shaniyamiller434]

These ones sound different

[@therobloxlegend6039]

Sounds like somethings raiding and playing ace of spades

[@RubiksStars79327]

Where the location I can see

[@FindingNorcal]

Creepy!!!

[@RealMatthewMorgan]

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