Dear All, Does anyone have an email address for Craig brown at the Scotsman, who wrote the material below?
Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia > "The Royal > Mile, could well vanish in a puff of bureaucracy only to be replaced by the > Royal 1.609344km." > > > "The issue of distances and travelling suddenly takes on a whole new light. > For a start it would no longer be 46 miles to travel from Edinburgh to > Glasgow, it would be 74.029824 kilometres, while London would suddenly > become a distant 650.174976 kilometres, instead of 404 miles." > > "And the speed limit signs would also have to change - but what to? There's > no easy conversion - 30mph becomes 48.28032kmph, 70mph turns into a scarily > fast sounding 112.65408kmph."
