Stephen has suggested that only one London Underground line used km/h & the rest used mph & went on to suggest that there was no shared line running. As usual, Stephen is being economical with the truth. Can he confirm that the East London Line & the DLR use imperial? Or is he being pedantic & pretending that these lines are not part of the "proper" underground? Now, as far as I recall, the Circle line shares running track with every other underground line (except the East London Line & maybe the DLR). I know that it does not use metric-only speedos, but it shares some track with the Jubilee (which does use metric) How do you explain this practice, Stephen (considering your comments below?)
--- On Mon, 13/4/09, Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]> wrote: From: Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:44663] Re: Bahamas To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 13 April, 2009, 10:46 PM #yiv146877859 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv146877859 { font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} Martin - I believe that it's only one underground line that has km/h speedos - the rest are like the national train system - ie in mph. It sound odd that one line has km/h - what happens when they change line? Answer is - they don't - so each line could almost have it's own system if it wanted!! ;-) From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:44651] Re: Bahamas Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:26:19 +0100 #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass .EC_shape {} #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass p.EC_MsoNormal, #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass li.EC_MsoNormal, #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass div.EC_MsoNormal {margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';} #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass h2 {margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0mm;text-indent:0mm;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;} #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass a:link, #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass span.EC_MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass a:visited, #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass span.EC_MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass p.EC_AppendixHeading, #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass li.EC_AppendixHeading, #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass div.EC_AppendixHeading {margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0mm;text-indent:0mm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;} #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass span.EC_EmailStyle18 {font-family:Arial;color:navy;} _filtered #yiv146877859 {} #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass div.EC_Section1 {} #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass ol {margin-bottom:0mm;} #yiv146877859 .ExternalClass ul {margin-bottom:0mm;} Mike, If you looked carefully you would probably have seen mph as a supplementary measure. The UK vehicles that I have seen that have km/h only are the London Underground, various metro systems (Newcastle, Croydon) and some military vehicles. Most busses and heavy lorries have km/h as the primary unit of measure and mph as a secondary unit. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Payne Sent: 13 April 2009 14:49 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:44649] Re: Bahamas Thanks for all the feedback, I will take pictures and be on the lookout for RHD vehicles. On a similar note, I was in the UK a week or so back riding on a local bus, I noticed the speedometer was km/h only! I've noticed that Taxi's (the black London cab), also have km/h only speedometers. Mike Payne ----- Original Message ----- From: John Frewen-Lord To: Michael Payne ; U.S. Metric Association Sent: Monday, 13 April 2009 05:57 Subject: Re: [USMA:44639] Bahamas I believe the Bahamas is not (yet?) officially metric. I am a consultant (rather sporadically) on The Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau and the Rand Memorial Hospital in Freeport. Everything is imperial, primarily because so much, including the building code, comes from, or is based on, what happens in Florida. Most products are in imperial sizes (again, these come from the USA). Road signs and car speedometers/odometers are still in miles. (As an unusual aside, and a recent phenomenon, many cars in the Bahamas are private import late model right hand drive Japanese cars - you drive on the left in the Bahamas, but most cars are left hand drive. These RHD Japanese imports come direct from Japan, where there are limits on how old a car can be, and of course all have metric speedometers/odometers - but I was told by a Bahamian government official that there is no law requiring them to be converted to miles.) I seem to remember reading something recently about the Bahamas converting to metric, but I do not believe that it has officially been mandated yet. Hope this helps. John F-L ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Payne To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 3:36 AM Subject: [USMA:44639] Bahamas Anyone have any idea of what the law in the Bahamas states regarding the preferred or mandated system of measurement there? I looked at http://laws.bahamas.gov.bs/statutes/statute_CHAPTER_338.html and could not find anything except some imported stuff had to be by the Bushel. I'll be going there next week and wanted to know what the situation was before I left. Thanks Mike Payne " Upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 Optimised for MSN. " Download Now
