Nearly all States that designed and built in metric are now back to English, New York will sadly soon follow. With such a bitter taste in our mouths it certainly will be a generation before we attempt to convert once again. Once we were leaders, now we will be followers, only converting when everyone else has.
That said, we can still convert signs and speeds to metic at any time, we just need the will to do so. We can certainly continue to design and build in English but post signs in metric, its just a graphic anyway. Perhaps the political opposition from Contractors might not have been so great against sign conversion as it has been towards metric construction, maybe that would have been an easier win, it still can be... Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer, Region 4 (585) 272-3372
