The Bahamas - most cars are left hand drive, even though they drive on the left. The rental cars I had there (one in Nassau, one in Freeport) both had mph-predominant speedometers, odometers in miles. Fuel sold by the imperial gallon (4.54 L). Speed limits in mph, but I was told that is about to change (along with fuel to be dispensed in liters). I was a passenger in the Mercedes owned by a colleague that I used to work with in the 1960s and bumped into in Nassau (small world!), and that car was mph-predominant.
Many cars in the Bahamas are RHD imports from Japan, like Ezra reports for Barbados. Japan has a rule about a ten year age limit on cars there, so many perfectly good cars get exported to places like the Bahamas and Barbados. And these cars all have km/h only markings. In the Bahamas, they are supposed to change them, but few get changed. John F-L ----- Original Message ----- From: ezra.steinb...@comcast.net To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 8:28 AM Subject: [USMA:49194] Re: Driving in the Caribbean I can add this from a personal correspondent visiting Barbados: Barbados has road signs in metric. Most cars (Japanese imports) have km/h only on their speedometers but - ironically - the European imports have mph main markings (km/h small markings) because they import UK cars that have the steering wheel on the right-hand side. People tend to 'speak' in imperial (miles, yards, feet, that sort of thing). Shop stuff is mixed but loose stuff is per kg. Weather is in Celsius on their TV station and in their newspapers. -- Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Payne" <metricmik...@gmail.com> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 6:02:50 PM Subject: [USMA:49192] Re: Driving in the Caribbean I can add the following, St Martin/St Maarten Joint French/Dutch group in the north eastern Caribbean. Fuel sold in liters, speed limits in km/h and vehicle speedometers in km/h only. Anguilla Fuel sold in Imperial Gallons, speed limits in mph, car speedometers in km/h only. Noted this only last month (November 2010). Michael Payne On 14/12/2010, at 01:27 , Jon Saxton wrote: > Puerto Rico: > > Predominantly metric. Fuel sold in liters Distances in kilometers. Rental car odometer in miles. Speed limits in mph. > > > St Croix: > > All USC. > > > > St Kitts: > > Odometer in km. Distances in miles. Speed limits not posted. Fuel sold in imperial gallons. > > > Dominica: > > Not known. Did not drive there. > > > Grenada: > > Odometer in km. Distances sometimes in miles, sometimes in km. Speed limits not posted. Fuel sold in imperial gallons. > > > Tobago: > > Odometer in km. Distances in km. Fuel in liters. > > > > Puerto Rico was the most interesting. It is an oasis of metric in an otherwise USC nation and offers a counter-argument to anyone who says that metering fuel in liters is not practical. >
