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----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris KEENAN 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? -- Chris KEENAN UK Metric Assoc.: metric.org.uk
