-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Ressel Sent: Friday, 2004 January 09 8:17 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:28216] Re: New York state department of transportation
>>I contacted someone in our Albany Main Office for clarification, you can read below but it sounds good. >> Great to hear! >>>If I hear any action on the legislative front I will let you know (some of you have a better ear to the ground than I do and might hear before me). >> That's easy to track. Go to the following link and type "metric", or "english", or "dot", or anything else you can imagine, and see if anything comes up. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/ I didn't see anything. Remember, they can't slip a bill though without publicizing here, that's a violation of sunshine laws. Nat Response from MO: The Department has not wavered from it's position that we will be metric. I attended the last AGC-DOT meeting that is referred to, I don't recall the Department's response being any different than in the past - we are metric and we plan to stay that way (of course, the Department may not have final say...as in some other states, the DOT's were legislated back to English). I am unaware of any "task-force" that has been created to discuss going back to English units. The Department and AGC agreed to reach out to their members/employees what current practices are regarding use of metric and how comfortable workers are with the metric system. Howard Ressel, Metric Manager New York State Department of Transportation, Region 4 Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer, Region 4 (585) 272-3372
