Mike Joy in USMA 21479 wrote: >Things may be slow for awhile in Ireland but I think they're ahead of >England. Haven't they got >their road signs up in km? UK have yet to do this. I did notice however >that all the white marker >posts along UK motorways are spaced every 50m apart.
Those white marker posts are used by the engineers who maintain the motorways. It is the central bureaucracy that fears that the metrication of speed limits and distance signs would confuse or annoy the majority of the p0opulation. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
