Perhaps Nat or Howard could shed some light to us concerning this topic. Please? (Thanks...)
Marcus On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:41:48 Joseph B. Reid wrote: >John Mercer asked in USMA 28195: > >> I read the posting about the N. Y. s. D.O. T. thinking of going back >> to FFU. If this happens i feel it would be an unfortunate thing. I >> feel that any state that has gone back to FFU will probably never go >> back to metric. Why have so many states gone back? I believe all >> highway construction contracts in Canada are metric, but i'm not >> sure. If someone could let me know i would really appreciate it. It >> must of cost Utah quite a bit of money to switch back to FFU >> considering they had sold all their old FFU books. The BWMA would >> love to hear about N.Y. thinking of going back to FFU. I also believe >> that all highway construction contracts in the U K are done in metric, >> again if someone could let me know that would be great. Just think if >> highway construction contracts in the U K are in metric the members of >> the BWMA have to either walk or drive on them every day. Oh how >> that must bug them. Have a great evening John. > > > >The (Canadian government) "White Paper on Metric Conversion" of January >1970 listed The Canadian Council of Professional Engineers, the >Chemical Institute of Canada, and the Engineering Institute of Canada, >as in support of conversion. > >All speed limit signs were converted to km/h over the Labour Day >weekend of 1977. Conversion of distance signs was done over the >folllowing year. > >On a visit to Britain in 1985 I noticed obscure little distance signs >along the motorways every 100 metres. Britain still has not converted >speed limits or official distance signs to metric. > >I suspect that the United States is the only country in the world where >some engineers favor inch/pound units. > >Joseph B. Reid >17 Glebe Road West >Toronto M5P 1C8 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
