[WikiEN-l] Metric road signs in the U. S.

Tue May 17 21:43:15 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:

>Rick (giantsrick13 at yahoo.com) [050518 05:32]:
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>>I can just see the United States trying to do a mass
>>conversion of highway signs.  Each state would have to
>>sign off on it, and many would not just out of "the
>>federal government can't tell us what to do."
>>We'll see if the states actually buy the new driver's
>>license requirements.  Utah has already rejected the
>>"No Child Left Behind" education requirements, the DL
>>stuff is going to be even worse.  But highway signs
>>would be a war.
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>What I want to know is whether weather reports in Detroit *really do* show
>temperatures on the US side in Fahrenheit and on the Canadian side in
>Celsius, on the same diagram, with no explanation.
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I can't comment on what the Detroit stations do, but some of the 
Washington state stations here on the west coast certainly do that.

Ec