A bit radical good sir. I believe that would only make things worse not help. What we need to do (and to some extent have) is listen to their concerns and work with them without compromising our goal. For example, we allow developers to submit permits in English unites. If we force them to use metric they would complain so loud that the politicians would listen (remember developers have lots of money and influence) and metric would be crushed back to the stone age.
Howard Ressel, Metric Manager NYSDOT Region 4 Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer, Region 4 (585) 272-3372 >>> "Chimpsarecute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/09/04 06:07PM >>> One should find out what contractors are behind this attempt to force New York back to FFU, and BLACKLIST them. Don't submit bids to them and if you have to never chose them. If you are forced to use them, find fault with their work. This should help nip this plague in the bud. Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Ressel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2004-01-09 08:16 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. 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). 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
