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minus-squareGreatAlbatross@feddit.ukMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month ago And expensive. Imagine the cost of changing the entire road network over to use metric. “Minister, we have a cunning way to lower the speed limits, and go metric, at the same time…”
minus-squareblackn1ght@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoNot just the speed limits that need changing, basically any sign with a distance on it too.
minus-squareSilic0n_Alph4@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago“Oh Bernard, you mustn’t confuse the minister with such matters! Speed is distance over time, and the civil service has long wanted to redefine time…”
minus-squareHumanPenguin@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month agoUnfortunately, only local auth councillors tend to have any interest in lowering the limit. Well at least since 1967 when the M1 was first given the perm 70mph limit.
“Minister, we have a cunning way to lower the speed limits, and go metric, at the same time…”
Not just the speed limits that need changing, basically any sign with a distance on it too.
“Oh Bernard, you mustn’t confuse the minister with such matters! Speed is distance over time, and the civil service has long wanted to redefine time…”
Unfortunately, only local auth councillors tend to have any interest in lowering the limit.
Well at least since 1967 when the M1 was first given the perm 70mph limit.