Sorry, Joe, I meant every 500m apart. They'd use up all their remaining trees if they were 50m apart! Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 7:39 AM Subject: [USMA:21502] Re: Back from Ireland | 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 population. | | Joseph B.Reid | 17 Glebe Road West | Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071 | |
