The root legislation is that all safety, environmental and official
measures must be metric. And based on EU legislature.

The UK has "derogation" on certain things - signposts being one of them.

Or are you trying to say that I *could* use imperial notation if I were
a road contractor? I believe you know that I could not - possibly with
the intention of entrapment.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 13 January 2005 18:28
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:31908] Re: CADOT reversions


On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 17:25, Stephen Humphreys wrote:
> Current legislation prevents any road authority from using imperial. 
> If I were a private contractor who won a contract to build a motorway 
> straight through the lake district (!) I would be denied the choice to

> use imperial measures.  Thie particular legislation eminates from the 
> EU.

So which piece of British legislation enforces this requirement?


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Chris KEENAN
UK Metric Assoc.: metric.org.uk

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