"RJ" wrote in message
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Dan Foster wrote:
Well, there was an aborted attempt in the late 1980s/early 1990s for the
highway signs; what killed it was a lack of funding to do the conversion
fully due to some political lobbying by well heeled folks.

Why would anybody lobby on either side of the issue of road signs?

Road signs would have to be the least important aspect of using metric
measurement in any case.

Well, if a road sign were to read "Gotham 167 kilometers" and American
speedometers, odometers, fuel consumption computers and trip computers are
all in miles, some people might feel more comfortable with the old system. KM
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