[USMA:37151] RE: metric road signs

[Mike Millet]

It'll certainly be interesting to see what the next generation of engineers decide to do. The majority of engineering students I talk to , be they mechanical nuclear  or civil all tell me  that they for the most part are trained almost exclusively in SI. Perhaps once that generation gets into the workforce and starts doing the design they'll switch it to the units with which they're more familiar. All the one's I've talked to have agreed that the SI units make for much more logical design so we'll see.

My prediction is we'll end up much like the UK for the next 10-20 years where everything will slowly metricate except for road distance and in normal conversation. Temperature fuel and most other things I'm sure will metricate, it's just getting rid of the last vestiges of the old measures that needs to be done.

On 7/26/06, Howard Ressel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Nearly all States that designed and built in metric are now back to English, New York will sadly soon follow. With such a bitter taste in our mouths it certainly will be a generation before we attempt to convert once again. Once we were leaders, now we will be followers, only converting when everyone else has.

That said, we can still convert signs and speeds to metic at any time, we just need the will to do so. We can certainly continue to design and build in English but post signs in metric, its just a graphic anyway. Perhaps the political opposition from Contractors might not have been so great against sign conversion as it has been towards metric construction, maybe that would have been an easier win, it still can be...

Howard Ressel
Project Design Engineer, Region 4
(585) 272-3372

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