[USMA:33496] RE: July 4

[Ezra Steinberg]

I agree with Carleton.   Gearing up for a world-wide (and all metric other than from the USA) audience coming to the UK for the Olympics is a good "hook" for converting road signs, ditching Fahrenheit for summer temps, and all the other bits of Imperial that need to go.   Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: Carleton MacDonald To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 9:37 AM Subject: [USMA:33495] RE: July 4 <snip>   In the UK the past couple of weeks I noticed a lot of real estate ads that gave the area of the office, or apartment, or house, in square meters.  Some also gave square feet, but pretty much everyone gave it in square meters.   Get the highways done, and it’s all done.   I think one thing that will make it harder in the UK is that many of the signs are cast, rather than flat, especially the directional signs in towns that direct you to points of interest and give the distance.  It’s easy to put a decal or a plate over a flat sign.  It’s a lot harder when the sign was custom-made with die-cast lettering.  No wonder they’re holding back on this last bit.   Carleton