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2002-10-06
found on the yahoo metrication site.
John
From: "lynn_kramer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Mon Jul 1, 2002 6:12 pm
Subject: Re: Re, Transportation engineering goes back
to Imperial Units
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I wish it was simply a
local decision here in Idaho, unfortunately it
is not just here. It is
the entire Federal Highway Administration.
My contacts at ITD (Idaho
Transportation Dept.) say that we are being
forced with threatened
funds witholding again to change back to
Imperial units. I only wish
someone with a little clout could follow
the money trail to the person
or agency responsible for this obvious
step backwards.--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Michael G. Koerner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> From: "lynn_kramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu May 16, 2002 2:31 pm
>
Subject: Transportation engineering goes back to Imperial
Units
>
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"lynn_kramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > I have been a Civil Engineer for over 25 yrs. I do
highway
designs
> > as a consultant to State Transportation
Depts. (mostly Idaho).
What
> > happened? We were converted
to metric in 1985, the feds forced
the
> > issue, by
threatening to withold funds, but it was done. Now
most
> >
ever engineer whole heartedly enjoys using meters.
> >
>
> So what happens? Now we are informed that we are changing back
to
> > Imperial Units. As of now all new highways will be in feet
and
inches.
> >
> > What happened? Who did this to
me? Why? Who should I call?
>
> I have known about Idaho's
reversion for about a year now, as I
found it
> out from an
IDDOT engineer who I visited while on a roadtrip in
Colorado
>
over last year's Memorial Day weekend.
>
> These 'reversions'
are normally foisted upon the various state DsOT
> (however
unwillingly) by powerfull contractors' lobbies and a
sheepishly
> ignorant legislature and governor that are easily
'convinced' (in
the
> usual manner) that 'reverting' is a good
idea. Contractors are the
> epitomy of that American cultural
phenominon of extreme inertia.
> They've always used 'Olde
Englishe' units and that alone is the best
> reason of all to keep
using them.
>
> You can contact your legislators and
Governor's office, but it will
take
> a greater force than that
to undo that reversion. I would start
leaning
> on your
Congresspeople to set a new, IRON CLAD, drop-dead deadline
for
>
the state DsOT to go 100% SI on federally funded projects in the
next
> transportation bill.
>
> ----------
>
> And then they spake a plan for a widget drawn in binary fractions
of
> inches, they maketh the widget on a machine calibrated in
decimal
> divisions of inches, they installeth the widget on a frame
laid out
in
> decimal divisions of feet *AND THEN* they
wondereth why nothing
fits....
>
> --
>
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Michael G. Koerner May they | | | | | |
rise again!
> Appleton,
Wisconsin USA | | | | | |
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