From: "john mercer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:33271] Height restriction signs Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:03:26 -0700Hello i would like to say something about height restriction signs in the UK. I understand they can not be in metric only but can be in both metric and imperial. It would be interesting to do a survay. Forinstance if there were a shopping mall just after there were a height restriction and people came in to the parking lot after going past the sign and ask the drivers could you please tell me how many ft or meters high that sign said. It would be interesting to see i bet some drivers couldn't tell you in either metric or imperial. my point is this. Unless UK drivers are more observent than Canadian drivers you probably would get some people saying i didn't even know there was a sign there. The only people that really care in my opinion are us who are interested in measurement be it metric or imperial. I believe that in the real world most people don't care one way or the other. I base this opinion on the fact that a couple of ears ago i asked Doreen and one of our friends who do a lot of driving were the height restriction signs on the roads in ft or meters. They couldn't tell me they said the next time we go under a overpass we'll have a look. I could be wrong but i think this is how it is in the real world. As long as the persons vehicle clears the height i don't think he or she could care less how the sign is measured. You could probably give the height in cubits and people wouldn't care. Hope i didn't ramble on to long. John Mercer.
Most car parks (if not all) have a colourful bar hanging from the ceiling -
a much more visual way of seeing if your car will "fit"
