Arizona will spend 1.5 million dollars to replace the metric signs that were placed in the 1980's and I think that is money well spent.
Americans don't do metric. We refuse to conform. The only thing that I participate in that is metric is - I buy my Diet Pepsi in 2 liter bottles.
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I guess there is just extra money sitting around that needed to be spent.
Anyone who can't tell the difference between the metric-system signage and the mile-system signage along that short stretch of road (which I've driven hundreds of times) probably shouldn't be driving. It's not confusing -- just interesting -- to all but the xenophobes.
They will remove the signs so American drivers will not be confused. You know what they they say... A gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure...
We in Western Australia regard Arizona as a smart state, because of the decision not to have daylight savings as we have chosen in 4 referanda in the past 20 years.
It would be the best thing Arizona ever did was to take the American bull by the horns and lead the US, kicking and screaming like a spoilt child into the 21st century, to join the other 200 nations of the world that have already switched to the metric system and never regretted it.
What lovers of retaining the old customary units don't know is that there is a general move away from the fractional, non-decimal, non-base-ten, non-logical system of measuring, to the SI system of common-sense and normality throughout the world.
So what are these noisy guys going to do when the US finally does go metric (as it will) one can only wonder.
We in Australia have been 100% metric for 40 years now, and we absolutely love it and are not about to revert back to the Shakespearian system just as we are not about to speak ye olde Englishe as our forefathers did.
We shake our heads in disbelief that ANYONE would prefer a cumbersome system in preference to a dead-easy system of measuring,
We can understand that Liberia and Burma want to retain the old system, but not the U.S. for goodness sake.
So, anti-metric guys, you can always join up with the Shakespeare Society – they’d love to have someone who has the ability and willingness to retain an incredibly difficult and unwieldy language of measures that’s about as difficult for us to learn as the Welsh language.
Good luck, Arizona. Be sure that you always think ahead, as we do.
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