[USMA:32161] RE: Irish road metrication

[Stephen Humphreys]

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1) Scotland (like Wales and NI) are part of the UK.  2) There are no plans to metricate roads (or more accurately, no politician would get away with it!) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenton Sent: 02 February 2005 05:41 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:32158] RE: Irish road metrication I sent this email to a friend who lives in Kent in the UK on 2005-01-20.  I thought his reply was interesting when I considered he has no real interest in metric, and is only a member of the public.   http://www.gometric.ie/indexxhtml Do you see this happening in the UK in your life time?   His anecdotal reply: I heard some rumours that they are going to start doing this soon, I don't know how much truth was in it though.   From: Ezra Steinberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; U.S. Metric Association Cc: Robin Paice Subject: Re: [USMA:32155] Irish road metrication   Well, first off, can someone in the UK or the UKMA tell us if there is a legally constituted body in Scotland that could make the decision to metricate road signs just in Scotland? (Somehow I don't think so ... )   Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: Brenton To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:16 PM Subject: [USMA:32155] Irish road metrication   Is Scotland next?     Quote from: http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=75962005 It will not stop there. I’ve now read of Ireland’s latest change in cultural behaviour - the metrification of its road speed signs. Roads signs that once said 60mph convert to the unhelpful 97 kilometres per hour - but rather than round it up to 100kph they are being rounded down to 80kph - which is 50mph. Other signs become faster and confusion abounds.   How long before a Scottish MSP says we should do the same?   There are officials in the Department of Transport who want us to make the switch to kilometres and some signs already give the game away. When you see road signs using distances of one or two thirds of a mile, it’s because they correspond to metric distances and therefore wouldn’t need to be moved if the sign is metrificated. When it’s proposed, remember, you read it here first.