Carleton
First writer, Chicago:
I think 25 meters is about 82ft + change. US [railroad passenger] cars are
85ft +/- an inches or so. Your [sic] almost a meter short.
(Is the meter gas, water or electric?)
Response from another, Toronto:
There's a project on in my neighborhood to replace all gas meters, putting
the
new ones outdoors, and replacing all the gas mains at the same time. This
involves much noise, much digging-up of gardens and chopping of sidewalks,
and
many cryptic marks on sidewalks and roadways and the sides of houses.
Yesterday I noticed that someone had marked off an irregular set of
measurements in front of my house. My front walk is just short of 11m.
Following the trail to the north, I see 8m 7m 6m 5m 4m but nothing less.
The zero point isn't
marked; I think it is just north of my neighbor's front walk, but I'm not
sure,
and I don't think that's anywhere near where her present gas line branches
off.
But I am sure of the unit of measure. This is Canada, after all; and
although
I am still a bit schizophrenic of measure, I know a meter when I see it;
and most
important of all, the contractor doing the work for the gas utility is named
Metric Construction.
