>You need to write to them and ask them what all of this will mean come >September when all speed limits on Irish roads are not only metricated, but >converted to rounded metric values.
The 50 MPH limit will become 80 km/h. Incidentally, the expected date is now the October bank holiday weekend (last weekend in October). >It sure would be foolish for someone to erect new signs now, only to have >them changed again in a few months. Foolishness never prevented county councils from doing anything. The decision to set a 50 MPH limit on a motorway is typical of the anti-motorist element in local government. All local councillors believe the same thing: roads in *their* areas should have very low limits, whereas roads everywhere else should have very high limits. >What about new cars being sold in Eire? Any appearing >now with metric instrument panels? I just took delivery of a new car, fitted at my request with metric only instrumentation at no extra cost. Quite a few manufacturers said they couldn't do it (e.g. Nissan, Renault). Full marks to Citroen. New cars will be fitted with metric only instruments from January 2005. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Wade | EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EuroKom | X400: g=tom;s=wade;o=eurokom;p=eurokom; Unit A2 | a=eirmail400;c=ie Nutgrove Office Park | Tel: +353 (1) 296-9696 Rathfarnham | Fax: +353 (1) 296-9697 Dublin 14 | Disclaimer: This is not a disclaimer Ireland | Tip: "Friends don't let friends do Unix !"
