As I've said before, someone got to them. Most likely, a group of contractors banded together and whined to someone high up in the state government, who put the pressure on Caltrans. I can't believe that they would have done this on their own. Utah and the other fully-converted states were likely the same way. Anyone want to make a bet that this is a concerted, coordinated effort by these contractors -- nationwide -- picking off one state at a time until their "work" is "done" ?
Legislation is the only thing that is going to end this once and for all. That Congressman who changed the one sentence in TEA-21 caused more damage than anyone could know -- and he very likely knew EXACTLY what he was doing. He must be gloating right now, unless, of course, he's too busy spending the payoff money he may have received. Carleton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terry Simpson Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 08:28 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:30895] RE: CALTRANS memo right here > Of Paul Trusten, R.Ph. >Here, as pasted text, Word document, and .pdf file, >is the CALTRANS memo dealing with the proposed >reversion to non-metric units Thank you for posting that. I was a bit cynical about the messages saying that their was a reversion. I was about to suggest that it might be just one of those things where they are forbidden to spend taxpayer money on metrication. To my horror, I see that it is taxpayer financed reversion. We have often argued that costs of change to metric can be justified if offset against long term savings. It is ironic that they are suggesting that it works in the opposite direction.
