Canadian Crosswalks changing their tunes - Novax Industries helped compose Canadian Melody Posted by: ITS Canada
March 30th, 2016
Despite its grandiose name, the Canadian Melody sounds more like a pedestrian ditty than a symphonic passage.
But the four-tone tune is getting more and more air play at crosswalks from coast to coast, and this week marks its debut in Prince George, B.C..
Melody replaces bird chirp
Canada's traditional crosswalk audible is a chirping sound.
But safety officials feared that sound was too easily mimicked by real birds, which could mislead pedestrians.
So, the chirp is being replaced by the Canadian Melody.
Delta, B.C. company Novax Industries, in concert with the University of Ottawa and the Institut Nazareth et Louis Braille, started developing the tune in the 1990s.
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