[USMA:36253] Re: St. Patric's day - Is Ireland all Metric?

[Stephen Humphreys]

It's not exactly new news - but they've changed the road speeds to mph, 
Steve!

From: "Stephen Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Stephen Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Subject: [USMA:36237] Re: St. Patric's day - Is Ireland all Metric?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:53:14 -0000

No, at the moment Ireland is mostly metric but not totally metric.

For instance, they have signposts in kilometres but speed limits are 
measured in MPH!!!!

I believe they intend to address the above anomaly in the near future.

Regards,

Steve.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: [USMA:36236] Re: St. Patric's day - Is Ireland all Metric?


> Up until last year I worked at Guinness, and they (my Irish collegues) 
spoke
> "mixed".
>
>
> >From: David King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
> >Subject: [USMA:36235] Re: St. Patric's day - Is Ireland all Metric?
> >Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:00:11 +0000
> >
> >I cannot comment on what is happening in Ireland, but here in London, I 
did
> >overhear some Irish men talking on a train recently, and they were 
using
> >metric, talking of distances in metres. No imperial was used at all.
> >
> >David King
> >
> >Buy UKMA's report "A Very British Mess" ISBN 0750310146
> >http://www.ukma.org.uk/Docs/pubs.htm
> >
> >Avoid confusion with conversion, just learn to think metric!
> >http://www.thinkmetric.org.uk
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Ivan Kochnev wrote:
> >>
> >>Dear Metric Fellows,
> >>
> >>I just recently started editing a newsletter of the company I work 
for. In
> >>the "Did you know" section I publish 1 mertic fact a week. The week 
after
> >>next week is St. Patric's day. I will publish a short article about 
that.
> >>My question to everyone here is:
> >>Is Ireland ALL Metric? How hard was the metrication conversion and 
when
> >>was it started and completed? Are the road signs (often discussed 
here) in
> >>km/h ?3
> >>
> >>Your help will be highly appreciated!
> >>
> >>By the way: I discovered dual units tape measures on the flea market 
for a
> >>dollar. I buy yhem there and resell them at work with no 
markup/profit.
> >>People seem to like them, and I think this is a very simple practical 
step
> >>to make people more familiar and used to the metric units of length.
> >>
> >>Since I do not post here very often, may I suggest the following:
> >>Some of the postings have aconfidentiality notice at their ends. Could 
you
> >>please skip those?
> >>
> >>Have a nice day!
> >>
> >>Yours,
> >>Ivan Kochnev
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >
>