I distinctly remember reading somewhere, probably on this list serve how someone in Congress slipped something into a budget bill (?) that upended the whole transition, and if memory serves, I think more than 40 states had already transitioned to doing all Federal Highway construction and planning in SI. I’m sure this was in the late 90’s early 2000’s. It cost money to transition and money to transition back. What a waste.
Someone will read this and remember. Unless I have it all wrong? Mike Payne > On 10 Jun 2020, at 13:03, Mark Henschel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > <https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma>
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