What nonsense! Many British and Irish motorists travel around Europe
nowadays. This means they will have to adapt at the spot. They have no 10
years to get used to metric when they leave the ship or the Chunnel; they
simply have to know that they cannot drive 50 mph in a 50 km/h zone. I
wonder if this Kevin Delaney is a relative of the BWMA's David Delaney.
There are streets nowadays in the Netherlands that would look very familiar
to drivers from the British Islands; they have the same speed limit signs
you
see in Britain with the number '30' on them. These are residential
streets where the speed limit is 30 km/h.
Han
"Paul Walter, of the AA, called the sign 'astonishing'. He said:' Leeds City
Council have no authority to erect this sign. In the UK we would need a
ten-year lead time to change to metric and also to educate drivers about the
difference between miles and kilometres'."
"His concerns were echoes by the RAC. Spokesman Kevin Delaney said: 'The
vast majority of people don't understand kilometres. At best this sign is
simply meaningless, and at worst it is a real distraction'."
