Charles, Could have been. But it was before before 1990, maybe 1980. I was driven from Dublin westwards. An hour. Forgot the name of the town. But I told the story many times in those "metric" days and so it is doubtful that I made it up.
To my roundabout story at the Bourne bridge, I forgot to demonstrate one the advantages of the circle situation. When the truck barreled into it, all the cars everywhere were in motion - thus dispersing from the roundabout instantly, on their own; no police needed to direct the traffic, to overrun traffic lights, no dwelling in a dangerous situation. Stan J. On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Charles Peyto <charles.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Stan, It was probably the other way round. Ireland (though not Northern > Ireland) changed from mph to km/h for speed limits in 2005. They replaced > all of their old UK-style speed limit signs with km/h signs over a few > days. To avoid any confusion, all the new signs had "km/h" shown on them. > They never had any km/h speed limit signs without the units clearly shown > on them. OTOH, their distance signs have been gradually changed over > several years - though, AFAIK, the new ones have the km unit symbol shown > somewhere. > > Northern Ireland, in common with the rest of the UK, still have mph speed > limits shown on unitless signs and use miles on distance signs - usually > without the unit shown, but using "m" as the abbreviation for miles on some > signs and if the distance is 1/4, 1/3 or 1/2 mile. > > -- > C. > > On 12 July 2016 at 01:27, Stanislav Jakuba <jakub...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You answered my question. When I was there last (a long time ago) the >> distances were in miles, but the speed limits were in km/h. Without the >> km/h shown. As a passenger in a car, I was really scared of the speed until >> the driver explained this state of affairs. I was like this apparently for >> years and nobody seemed bothered. >> Stan >> >> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Carleton MacDonald < >> carlet...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >>> I rented a car in Ireland in 2009. It was a stick shift, wheel on the >>> right, drive on the left side of the road. It wasn’t difficult. >>> >>> >>> >>> We rented the car in Belfast, toured the shipyard where the Titanic and >>> the Olympic were built, drove to Downpatrick to see St. Patrick’s burial >>> site (at the Anglican cathedral there), then drove to Dublin. The minute we >>> crossed the border, I noticed: >>> >>> >>> >>> The road signs were in both English and Gaelic. >>> >>> Speed limits and distances were in km. >>> >>> I had to find a bank machine to get some euro notes. >>> >>> >>> >>> Carleton >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2016-07-11, 17:39, "USMA on behalf of Mark Henschel" < >>> usma-boun...@colostate.edu on behalf of mwhensch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Interesting thing about the British and their roundabouts, and driving >>> on the left side of the road. >>> >>> >>> >>> I was in a car being driven around England a few years back. The driver >>> sits on the right, but the gear shift is in the left, in the middle of the >>> car. So since they travel on the opposite side of the road, their >>> roundabouts turn clockwise, not counter clockwise as ours do. >>> >>> >>> >>> So here we are with the driver on the right, her left hand on the gear >>> shift, right hand on the steering wheel, left foot on the clutch and right >>> foot on the accelerator, and attempting to go counterclockwise into a >>> roundabout. All the time looking right and turning left. At least in the >>> USA we can use our best hand for most of us (right handers) on the gear >>> shift and just hold the steering wheel with the left hand, look left and >>> turn right, but I imagine it is a challenge to constantly use your left >>> hand to shift gears if you are right handed. >>> >>> >>> >>> Few European cars have automatic transmissions. Even when I rented cars >>> in Germany, they were usually stick shift but diesel engines. Hmmm. wonder >>> if I got one of the cars VW cheated on the emissions with? >>> >>> >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 4:15 PM, John Dunlop <jrdun...@igc.org> wrote: >>> >>> I just received a note from Queen Elizabeth. She has declared that we >>> are flubbing democracy, and therefore, effectively immediately, our >>> independence is revoked. Among the changes she will implement in the >>> country formerly known as the USA: >>> >>> >>> 6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will >>> start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you >>> will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion >>> tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the >>> British sense of humour. >>> >>> >>> John >>> >>> >>> John Dunlop >>> jrdun...@igc.org personal email >>> 612-374-2181 home phone >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> USMA mailing list >>> USMA@colostate.edu >>> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list >>> USMA@colostate.edu >>> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> USMA mailing list >>> USMA@colostate.edu >>> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> USMA mailing list >> USMA@colostate.edu >> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > >
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