Dutch bureaucrats are pulling the plug on the country's first 'singing' road that was designed to slow down speeding motorists, wrote dailymail.co.uk.

Grooves etched into the asphalt of the N357 road at the village of Jelsum belted out the national anthem of the Friesland region when hit at over 60 kilometers per hour.

'You are now approaching a singing road,' read the signs on the approach to the sleepy village.

But while drivers were reminded to take their foot off the accelerator when they hit the musical grooves too fast, locals say they were driven nuts by hearing the tune repeatedly throughout the day and night.

'It was intended as a funny campaign,' said Gerrit Hofstra, spokesman for the province of Friesland.

And it also ensures road safety. That way motorists would have no problem taking their foot off the gas.'

'You have to like the Frisian anthem a lot to endure listening to it all day and night,' said annoyed residents to Dutch television reporters. 

'That's mental torture,' claimed one woman.

'No one expected these side effects,' added spokesman Hofstra. The 'singing road' will therefore be silenced later this week.