TEA-21 is currently up for reauthorization. It has been postponed over
and over again since last year. Once it's approved, we're stuck for
another 6 years. Is the USMA leadership involved in this at all?
Jason D.
On Aug 27, 2004, at 18:09, Euric wrote:
You are all wasting your time! Yes, do write to the top, but to the
top in
DC, the Federal Highway Administration. The only thing that fill end
the
reversions is a top down decree.
Better yet, the USMA should find a friend in government and work to
have the
following achieved:
1.) Remove the provision from TEA-21 that makes metric usage voluntary.
Re-instate the original law punishing those who don't comply with
withdrawal
of operating funds.
2.) Require that the use of metric be at all levels, from the Federal
Level,
all the way down to the local level, including those that have
"contact"
with construction projects.
3.) Eliminate any provisions that allows complaints and threats from
those
"outside" the loop. Anyone who makes an attempt to sabotage metric
usage
would be blacklisted and never permitted to receive contacts for
service in
a specified allotment of time.
4.) Etc.
This is the way it should have been. And if it was metric usage would
have
crept far and wide into the national economy. If it isn't done this
way the
entire use of metric in the areas it has crept into will be totally
undone
within the next few years if not sooner.
Euric
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, 2004-08-27 14:26
Subject: [USMA:30860] To CALTRANS
Hit them at the top, come on lets us write to them via their contact
site,
http://www.dot.ca.gov/writeus.htm
