Dear John and All, This is just a reminder about the metrication of roads in Australia.
The road construction committee chose to use kilometres, metres, and millimetres as their units. The metrication process took about a year. As an example, road signs were all covered with sacking and they were all revealed on one Sunday � M-Day for roads � and the public got used to the idea in a few months. Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia Pat Naughtin is the editor of the free online newsletter, 'Metrication matters'. You can subscribe by sending an email containing the words subscribe Metrication matters to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- on 8/1/04 3:39 PM, john mercer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. >
