Might be the Guinness :-) cheers Baron Carter
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Wade VMS Systems [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 15 July, 2002 08:29 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:21093] UK road signs >A kilometre is 0.621 of a mile. However, it is thought the government will >not reset a 70mph sign at the accurate conversion of 110kph, but at 100kph >in an attempt to reduce accidents. This is precisely the sort of woolly-headed thinking that will damage metric transition. It is analogous to the way a minority of unscrupulous traders increased prices during the euro changeover, and can detrimentally affect the whole process. Such a decision will only increase opposition to metrication, and is totally unnecessary. In the UK, it is only motorways that have speed limits in excess of 100 km/h, and despite the fact that they are the fastest roads with the most traffic on them, they only account for 7% of the fatalities. The equivalent speed limit in France is 130 km/h and in Germany anything you can do without losing control. I don't know about the UK, but we (IE) have a much higher fatality rate than FR or DE, despite our lower limits. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Tom Wade, EuroKom | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (all domain mailers). Dale House | X400: g=tom;s=wade;o=eurokom;p=eurokom;a=eirmail400;c=ie 30, Dale Road | Tel: +353 (1) 278-7878 Stillorgan | Fax: +353 (1) 278-7879 Co Dublin | Disclaimer: This is not a disclaimer Ireland | Tip: "Friends don't let friends do Unix !"
