At 11:12 2007-10-08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Paul,
Thanks for sharing this letter with us. I find it a bit surprising
that a state like New York hasn't got there yet.
Hopefully, now that they have a Democratic governor and (I believe)
a Democratic legislature, the atmosphere in Albany is more
progressive and open to adopting this kind of measure.
I wouldn't go that far. Bush Sr is who signed the Omnibus Trade Act
of 1988 and it was the Clinton administration that didn't further
some teeth with it. Also it was under the Clinton administration
that DOTs that had already started converting or already converted
got screwed because they removed the provision saying DOTs didn't
have to convert. So those that didn't came out smelling like a
rose...and those that did pretty much wasted the effort and have
since reverted unfortunatly.
As is fitting with our idiotic government's toying with metrication
over the years...a bunch of false starts and almost zero progress.
