Actually 1988 amendments to the 1975 Metric Conversion Act.
Well, no President since it was signed has ever enforced it or demanded the
annual reviews of progress it requires, so several agencies got used to making
no or only token progress, exploiting the loopholes to continue Customary, etc.
Agencies that took it seriously triggered laws from Congress that basically
said, In the name of God, DON'T do what we said you had to do. We didn't mean
it, not really."
The FHWA was admonished for forcing metric road designs and metric signage on
the States. Congress passed a 1995 law forbidding them to, and the States
reverted to Customary road designs. As a "poison pill" for metric signage,
several States (eg California) passed laws that not only must the State agree
to metric signage but every local government along the way. Metrication of road
signs goes from a problem of convincing 50 states to 50000 or so local
governments.
The agency in charge of metric design of federal buildings was told they HAD to
consider Customary dimension bricks and lighting fixtures. Of course, their
dimensions don't fit modular metric design, turning the process into endless
conversions and dual dimensioning, instead of actually designing in metric.
You didn't think Congress actually meant what they said about metric being
preferred, did you? It's only "preferred" when it doesn't inconvenience their
major political donors. If you think I am joking, the laws stymieing
metrication as above are on the USMA Metric Laws page.
On Sunday, October 6, 2019, 8:06:06 PM EDT, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
This implemented the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 at the U.s. Government
level with specific directives to convert.
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