Thanks, Nat, but could you please run that by us again? What's the bottom line here? Are they really thinking of reverting? Just the thought they'd be contemplating doing this is very worrisome.
Thanks. Marcus On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:48:09 Nat Hager III wrote: >I think Howard's the expert here, and he's already spoken up. I get >what I get off the web, which certainly isn't privy to inner >policy-making decisions at NYSDOT. Some links I could suggest: > >1) Search "Associated General Contractors" of New York. You'll probably >get plenty of hits, but the good stuff will be in members-only sections >of the website. > >2) Precast Concrete Assn. of NY www.pcany.org. Their newsletters use a >fair amount of metric > >3) Google Groups Usenet search. > >Nat > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Ma Be >Sent: Thursday, 2004 January 08 12:37 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:28207] How is New York doing? Really? > > >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 > > > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
