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John,
changing road signs in the US is a state responsiblility. One of the arguments
against changing to the metric system, was the cost of the signs and their
installation. It's kind of funny though, no one complained about the cost of
changing signs when we raised the speed limits on the interstates freeways from
55 mph!
Rich
Kim
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From: john mercer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:48 PM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:26820] Metric road signs 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.
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