It's precisely this bit I've reproduced below from the Irish Times that undescores the value of converting road signs in the UK in order to finish metrication and unmire the UK from the metric muddle.
Here's wishing the UKMA and others success in doing so over the next few years! Ezra > Irish Times Text: > > Weather reports to go fully metric next week > Liam Reid > > > Irish weather forecasters are to follow the example of the new kilometre > road signs and will abandon the use of miles per hour when giving wind > speeds in bulletins from the end of next week. > > Yesterday Met �ireann said it would be mirroring the changeover of speed > limits from miles per hour (m.p.h) to kilometres per hour (k.p.h)[sic] > this month. > > Mr Michael Walsh, head of forecasting at Met �ireann, said the use of > miles was to give a measurement that people understood and used in > everyday life. > > "It would seem ridiculous to keep using miles when every sign in the > country is in kilometres per hour," he said. > > Forecaster Ms Evelyn Cusack said most children were taught measurements > in metric units. "It's only us old fogeys who use miles," she said. > >
