Federal legislation in the Highway bill prohibited federal money being used to pay for Metric System items such as highway signs. Since there was no money to pay for it, all metrication work on highways stopped. Ironically states were not asking for money for signs, but for actual construction using SI units This was back in the Reagan era, and no changes have been made since.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 11:45 PM Michael Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone have the history of how and why most State Highway departments > rolled back their metric transition a number of years back? I seem to > remember it was some Congressmen who inserted language into a budget > somewhere that made the whole transition voluntary. And it all unravelled. > > Mike Payne > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >
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