Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr
Erie PA
Linux and Metric User and Enforcer
I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy have you collected today?
Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑
On Sep 8, 2011, Ressel, Howard (DOT) <[email protected]> wrote:
With due respect, I think your plan is flawed, you cannot convert the US purely on geographical terms. You have to do it a sector or industry at a time. The mistake we made with State highway agencies was that we neglected the rest of the construction industry. Contractors had to build in English for private work and metric for public work. This lead to confusion especially in the supply chain. I think the easily first step is the food and packaging industry. There are so many examples how it’s easy and causes no problems (i.e. wine, liquor, soda for the most part). Converting the rest of the industry would not be hard to do. It’s actually happening voluntarily now in many places. Companies produce more and more substituted metric sizes and label products in metric first or round metric sizes.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 4:10 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:51097] Re: Question about metric highway requirements
Yea, it really gets my goat, this is what I propose...
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Convert-USA-to-100-Metric-System/
Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr
Erie PA
Linux and Metric User and Enforcer
I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy have you collected today?
Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑On Sep 7, 2011, Parker Willey Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a question about metric highway requirements.
In this memorandum:
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/programadmin/contracts/1108metr.cfm
Apparently, all state highway agencies have changed their internal requirements to use only colonial units and not use metric at all.
There seems to be a clarification probably to state highway departments. It seems to say there is no requirement to use or to not use metric units. Then, I assume that a state highway department can use metric in it's designs if it wants to and still qualify for federal funding.
Is that what I am seeing?
I believe that when foreigners come to the US and see our peculiar colonial highway measures, they then will not buy our products as they will probably be not dimensioned in metric units.
How can we push the highway departments to get on the metric system? Any ideas?
...Parker
