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January 21, 2005
Ireland leads again
Nothing symbolizes Britain’s half baked approach to reform better than our semi-metrication, a legacy of the Thatcher period dating back to the 1970s.
In the words of Lord Howe: “We must surely be about the only country where the motorist sees the roadsign ‘Birmingham 51 miles’ and, a moment or two later, ‘Roadworks 500 metres’, where he buys petrol by the litre and yet compares fuel consumption in miles per gallon.”
All the more credit to progressive Ireland - land of the euro, the smoking ban and high growth rates - for leading the way again and changing over from miles to kilometers, and from mph to km/h.
www.ukma.org.uk/press/ar010210.htm
Posted by Simon Holledge at January 21, 2005 12:47 AM
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