Dear All,
I have just watched this completely bizarre BBC program called,
'Question Time' at http://www.youtube.com/user/UKMetric
I say completely bizarre because we, in Australia, changed all of the
road signs in this very large country in a single day (Sunday 1974
July 1). We did this with with minimum cost by simply applying stick
on signs over all the old signs. Some approximations were made (1/4
mile became 400 metres for instance) and all the the signs were
replaced and perhaps moved slightly in the normal order of maintenance
plans.
This completely bizarre BBC program illustrates clearly that the UK
government has no plans to learn from others about how to go about the
road sign change. Instead they appear to want to extend the discussion
well beyond the 45 years (1965 to 2010) it has already taken so far –
and there is no end in sight.
I have said before and I will repeat here, 'A well planned and carried
out metrication upgrade can be completed in a single day – a poorly
planned attempt at metric conversion can take more than 100 years. In
both cases the change to the metric system is inevitable'.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain
from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the
modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they
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