[USMA:26820] Metric road signs

[john mercer]

Hello I would like to say somethingabout the change of road signs from miles to kilometers. In Canada we changed our road signs over the labour day weekend in 1977.  It was all done at the same time all the way across Canada.  Drivers got used to thinking metric quite quickly.  At the same time when the road signs changed  any car that was built to be sold after Sept. 1 had to have a kilometer speedometer and odometer. In my opinion if the states and England are ever to change to kilometer road signs they should do it across the country at the same time.  If the States ever went to metric road signs would it be a federal program?  In Canada after we changed our road signs kilometers became part of drivers vocabulary quite quickly.  I was on an anti metric web site from england and they said that drivers don't think metric.  Drivers in Canada didn't think metric at all until the signs were changed.Thanks for your time.