cellular qwerty wrote:
>
> I am a newcomer to this mailing list and stumbled upon
> it by a series of unlikely events. I would certainly
> prefer to use a newsgroup for this topic. Does anybody
> have the knowhow to set one up?
>
> Forgive me if I am mentioning something that has been
> mentioned before but I have the following question:
>
> Is it possible to increase the United States use of
> yards rather than feet? ...
I happen to think that this would actually set us back by diluting the
effort to go right to meters. That's just a personal opinion, of course.
....
> The UK has made an unpublicised, quiet, gradual
> conversion over many years. They reduced the use of
> feet and increased the use of yards in road signs and
> elsewhere. It is much easier for organisations and the
> public to convert from yards to meters than from feet
> to meters. The Brits have been in transition for more
> than 30 years using ideas like this but still have a
> long way to go.
My impression from watching the and participating in the UKMA mail list
is that they are actually almost there. They have perhaps another year
of letting the dust settle, tidying up the expected court battles, and
whatnot and then I anticipate that the roadways will be metricated in
short order. The pint in the pub will probably survive, but the roadways
must change, especially with the advent of the chunnel and the increase
in international drivers.
Jim
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