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Subject: Mon Dieu - it's already happening!

Author:
Dave (UK)

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Date Posted: 00:04:09 01/16/05 Sun
In reply to: Jim (Canada) 's message, "UK should ditch miles" on 14:44:53 01/07/05 Fri

According to our EU treaty obligations we will have to adopt metric road signs eventually. However, the present government position is that the status quo will remain until "the majority of road users have been educated in metric". This would mean around 2010. However, in the meantime, and in spite of this assurance, behold Britain's metrication by stealth.

Metric sign creep

Dodgy sign

Convert these "imperial" signs to metric and see what you get!!!

or 100m ??

hmm, 350m perhaps - We're being metricatified!

Don't have nightmares!

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[> [> Subject: Too late...
Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 00:42:54 01/16/05 Sun The nightmares have already started. Don't turn out the lights. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Ja, it's coming
Author: Ein European [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 14:55:32 01/16/05 Sun Of course, and if HM's government takes too long it risks being sued by some continental lorry driver or tourist. You can't expect people to learn all sorts of silly obsolete measures just in order to be able to exercise their right to free travel and commerce inside the EU. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: what right to free travel?
Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 15:21:12 01/16/05 Sun Either the UK has mysteriously signed up to those parts of the Schengen agreement that relate to frontiers and thus abandoned its border controls, or Ein European is talking through his bockwurst. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Not quite

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Ein european
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Date Posted: 15:59:36 01/16/05 Sun

Nein, the Schengen agreement exclusion means that the UK keeps the "right" to have border posts and monitor travel documents, but can't stop citizens from other EU states from entering the UK and indeed setting up residence there, provided that they have proper identification (and not even a passport can be requested, if that EU national comes from a state which issues id cards and he prefers to use it).

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[> [> Subject: Metrication is in keeping with the Commonwealth
Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 16:43:52 01/17/05 Mon Metric conversion in Britian started before joining the EU. Canada, Australia and New Zealand (and others) have gone fully metric with kilometres on the signs with no trouble. If Britain switched to kilometres (as I think they should), it would be in keeping with the Commonwealth as well as Europe. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]