Pierre and member of list,
I just heard the same report too on NPR at about 8:45 to 8:50 AM Eastern
Time. The "citizen's" whose voice was used said that the sign should be in
the measure that Americans "use" or perhaps he said that Americans are "used
to".
At that very time I heard the subject report, I began to hear a peculiar
noise from our water heater. By the time I got my computer turned on,
called our plumber for advice on what to do, and got back to my computer, I
saw your email and forgot the actual verb tense.
Norm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre Abbat" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:00 AM
Subject: [USMA:43675] Re: Arizona I-19 losing kilometer signs
On Saturday 07 March 2009 09:45:59 John M. Steele 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.)
I just heard on NPR that the signs are worn out and need to be replaced.
That
doesn't explain, though, why a rotated sign isn't worn out, or why they
don't
put both units on the signs.
Pierre
