I noticed Hawaii slightly more metric-friendly, in the road signs I saw on the Big Island and Kauai. The dual mile/km signs on the Big Island were pretty common, though there's a chance they were put up in the 80/90's and are slowly being replaced with miles. (I didn't study in detail - too many other things to see!)
The elevation in feet and meters seemed pretty standard, and maybe there's a real motivation here, since everyone's worried about Tsunamis, and that's an international event. I read before I left that Hilo (Big Island) was hit with a 14 meter Tsunami, and there were marks on the restaurant wall indicating how high it had been. Look at the eighth picture and links here, you'll see how serious it is: http://www.win.net/~dorsea/nehager/hawaii/big_island_north_coast.htm Some other things like the hotel indicating check-in time at 3:00 PM (15:00) may have just been catering to the large number of Japanese tourists that go through. I also remember that Hawaii briefly had all-liter gasoline sales in the 80's, by state law, though they reverted when the other states failed to follow. My guess is that if we ever really converted, Hawaii would be the LAST state to object! Nat -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 2009 August 13 12:49 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:45602] Re: Hawaii metric Very nice pictures Nat. Were there more metric signs and if so what were they usually describing? Did you speak to people or hear other people speak metric when you were there? How metric friendly did you find Hawaii? Simon -------------------------------------------------- From: "Nat Hager III" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 2009-08-13 10:31 To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Cc: "Nat Hager" <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:45599] Hawaii metric > Back in June I got stuck with the dirty job of having to attend an NSF > grantees conference, in of all places, Honolulu. So I managed, > particularly > considering it was being paid for out of the grant. > > When the conference was over I was stuck in Honolulu on a Thursday night, > with not much on the calendar for the following week as it was a short > week > due to 4th July. So I made the best of a bad situation, and spent a few > days on the Big Island, Maui, and Kauai. <g> > > In the course of the week I noticed a lot of metric road signs, which I've > attached. More general pictures are at > > http://www.win.net/dorsea/nehager > > follow the obvious links. > > Nat >
