The Department of Transportation says that the Interstate Highway System is 46,876 miles [75,439 km] long. If the cost for changing over 100 km of roads is $1,500,000 then in theory to change over all Highway signs to metric would cost $1,131,585,000.
Stephen Mangum On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:45 AM, John M. Steele <[email protected]>wrote: > > > This article > http://www.gvnews.com/articles/2009/03/06/breaking_news/00mileposts0308.txt > reports that Arizona Dept. of Transportation will spend $1.5 million of its > Federal economic stimulus money to remove the metric distance signs along a > 100 km stretch of I-19. This will include removal of the metric and > rotation of already placed Customary signs to face traffic. > > Perhaps not quite the way we hoped stimulus money would aid metrication. > > (On the other hand, being a leader for 30 years, with no follower or plans > for followers is proabaly silly too.) > > -- Stephen
