[Sca-cooks] measurement
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Sat May 24 20:36:06 PDT 2008
> Despite this, the National Highway System Designation Act passed in 1995
> and prohibited the use of Federal-aid highway funds to convert existing
> signs or purchase new signs with metric units.
>
> Johnnae
The amended Act does not prohibit the use of funds for metric conversion, it
makes the conversion optional, so the States may do as they please in the
matter of metric conversion on the highway system. The conversion was not
just for signage, but for all plans, documents, etc. relating to any highway
project.
Oklahoma appears to have stayed with the English system, but California
(according to some CDOT regulations) has adopted the metric system for all
plans, required that all documents for public consumption have both English
and metric measures, and, IIRC from my recent trip out that way, some of the
signage is dual system.
Bear
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