Re: The Multi Million Pound Speeding Business
Originally Posted by
JBR
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Of course, but you have an efficient road system in the land of Oz.
Are your road signs in km now? We are still desperately clinging on to our miles. Perhaps I'm biased, but I can envisage miles, yards, feet better than metric, although I use mm for small and accurate measurements. 3/32 of an inch is too difficult for me.
I am not sure about efficient we don't have the network of roads you have but neither do we have very narrow roads either.
The mistake the UK made when going metric (I mean, I was still at school when it started) was that they allowed both systems to run in parallel eg on the weather forecast they had both Celsius and Fahrenheit. Where was the incentive to change? Here from the day it changed the old system was not allowed at all anywhere so even people like me who objected very strongly to metric got used to it very quickly because we had no choice.
Now, of course I am so glad they did that way and that I was forced to change. Now I have absolutely no idea what 85°F equates to and my one remaining tape measure with both inches and metric on it is the bane of my life.
As for road signs they changed them all virtually overnight, my speedo doesn't have one of those silly dials with mph and kph cluttering it up. It just has kph.
If Britain could change every gas stove and regulator to natural gas on one night you wouldn't would have thought changing all the road signs was much of a challenge but apparently it was beyond the powers that be.
There are three things Australia did very well and which the world should have copied. Metrication, Industrial Relations/wage fixing and the Electoral System.