...except Massachusetts!
My native state has always had consecutive exit numbering.
Paul Trusten
On Dec 28, 2009, at 14:03, "Martin Vlietstra"
<[email protected]> wrote:
I understand that most US freeway exits are numbered with reference
to the number of miles from the state line (or the start of the
freeway concerned). In the Wikipedia article “Exit numbers” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_nu
mber), I saw the following:
“United States - The use of sequential or distance-based exit number
ing currently varies by state, with 43 states using distance-based e
xit numbering and seven states using sequential numbering. The lates
t edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD),
issued by the Federal Highway Administration on December 16, 2009, e
liminates the option for states to use sequential exit numbering, an
d requires the seven states that presently number their exits sequen
tially to convert to distance-based numbering by January 2020.”
There is more in the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_numbers_in_the_United_States
.
Anybody have any comments?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Victor Jockin
Sent: 28 December 2009 19:34
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:46312] Re: Column by Terry Dickson
This half-serious piece is ignorable. I just wish the international
pressure he mentioned actually existed, or that the President had
any inkling to act on the issue of metric conversion.
I've said a few times on this discussion group that the biggest
problem is the combination of the undemocratic nature of the US
Senate (single senators can block action) and our inherently corrupt
campaign finance system (Senators use that undemocratic power to
serve monied private interests). The result is an inability of the
US Congress to act in the public interest when powerful private
interests might be harmed. This is both why the US stands alone
among industrialized countries in not adopting the world's standard
system of measurement, and why we stand alone in not providing
universal healthcare for our citizens. The current healthcare
debate has placed this glaring fault in our democracy in full view
once again.
We don't need a revolution to change this, just common sense
campaign finance reform and, as Thomas Friedman wrote in the NY
Times last week, a change in Senate rules to end filibusters.
Neither are unthinkable.
From: Pat Naughtin
Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 7:53 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:46307] Column by Terry Dickson
Dear All,
In this column at http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2009-12-27/story/my_list_of_wishes_for_the_new_year
Terry Dickson writes:
I hope our president doesn't bow to international pressure and put
the U.S. on the metric system. We'd have to convert miles to
kilometers and dabs and smidgens to deciliters and centiliters.
Is this an important column that deserves a response?
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
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