50 of 50 States went backward in a big way, so you may be wasting your time. The road contractors whined and fussed. They also quoted higher on metric projects, so the States, when given the option, ALL went back to USC. Frankly, the States spent a lot of money revising all their standards to metric, then spent again to revise back to Customary. Too bad border states didn't just hire Canadian contractors.
________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, January 22, 2013 8:49:50 PM Subject: [USMA:52225] RE: current status of the Hawaii metric bill, H.B. 36 Either way, CalTrans went backwards in a big way. I'm trying to find an appropriate contact form on their website to try to contact someone regarding why they went back from using metric. Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone ________________________________ From: Kilopascal <[email protected]>; To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>; Subject: [USMA:52218] RE: current status of the Hawaii metric bill, H.B. 36 Sent: Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:42:46 AM Caltrans never, ever used imperial. They used the older US version, called USC (for United States Customary). Imperial was used only in the British Commonwealth after 1824 and never adopted in the US. Imperial is technically illegal in the US. [USMA:52218] RE: current status of the Hawaii metric bill, H.B. 36 derryodell Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:15:34 -0800 CalTrans actually went back to using imperial units from last I heard. It's unfortunate considering they had a plan to implement metric in new projects. <br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone<br/>
