On 2-Jun-07, at 17:13 , Martin Vlietstra wrote:
Steve,
If you read the fine print about the DfT (Department for
Transport), you
would have realized that the DfT's strategy would have been to
convert every
sign over a short period of time. The UKMA's approach (which is a lot
cheaper) is to follow the Irish approach - speed limits are changed
overnight and other signs are changed once they reach the end of their
useful lives.
The difference between the UK and the US in this respect is that
the UK has
a single authority - the US has 50 authorities.
Many (if not all?) who rely on federal highway dollars for some of their
funding,.
Wasn't the risk of losing funding from the federal government
the reason that Washington was able to make each state raise
the legal drinking age to 21? Raise your drinking age, or lose
your federal highway funding.
Could they not use similar approach for changing roadway
signs to metric?
