How aggravating that ONE damn Congressman can cause such damage. How aggravating that the states are all sheep and listening to the pathetic blathering of the contractors.
How aggravating that no one stood up to either. Carleton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Ressel Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 16:17 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:37150] RE: metric road signs 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
