One wonders how distances in yards can be read off xxxxx.x (miles)
odometers.
With SI odometers, (say) 200 m = '2' in the tenths position. It's
so-o-o-o-o easy!
Duncan
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: April 5, 2002 13:34
Subject: [USMA:19254] RE: UKIP removes metric signs
>> FYI, just saw this in the Daily Telegraph today. <sigh>
>> Ezra
>> Poll candidate took 50 metric road
>> signs
>
>It is welcome that several organisations are assuming that they must or
>may make up signs displaying metric measures.
>
>The law is quite clear that privately owned metric signs cannot be taken
>down and there is an increasing number of these.
>
>The taking down of publicly owned signs is probably seen by the public
>as a minor nuisance. Individuals can hardly claim that they are
>personally victimised and so it is unlikely to rate much higher in the
>public eye than an amusing student prank. I can't see anybody getting
>worked up by it in the way that they did over shopping transactions.
>
>Less visibly, the positioning of signs is becoming increasingly
>metricated ('xxx 109 yards'). There is little interference that can be
>done about that that would get public sympathy.
>
>The embarrassment to courts and councils and the waste of resources
>might in the short term result in more care taken to ensure non-metric
>signage. In the long term it might have the positive result that
>councils call for the law to be changed to allow for metric signs.
>
>I can't see the government rushing to change anything soon, but they
>might get away with a regulation that allows metres to be used in
>applications where motor vehicles are not involved (and hence there is
>no safety counter-argument).
>--
>Terry Simpson
>Human Factors Consultant
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>www.connected-systems.com
>Phone: +44 7850 511794
>
