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echo: moscow_oklahoma
to: Mike Powell
from: Danny Ceppa
date: 2004-08-12 10:49:52
subject: Metrics

On 11 Aug 04  08:04:00, Mike Powell got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> Re: Metrics

 DC>It would make the change easier.  We were supposed to have gone
 DC>metric in the 60's!
 
 DC>Besides, it's fun driving at 110!   Not exactly 60 mph, but close...

 MP> The Clintons tried to take us over to metric on the highways during
 MP> one of their terms.  The administration in this state was pretty
 MP> friendly with them, and spent a lot of money re-signing one of the
 MP> expressways so that the signs were in both miles and km.

 MP> Needless to say, they wasted money on that one.  I've not seen many
 MP> other highways done like that.

I've seen it in a few places, but not many.  As it is, I'm hard 
pressed to name them!  


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