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DfT guilty of making unfounded claims
Yesterday, the National Audit Office (NAO) criticised the UK Department for Transport (DfT) for its unfounded claims about the benefits of the proposed high speed rail project HS2. In this article, Ronnie Cohen identifies another unfounded claim by the DfT … Continue reading
Posted in General, Myths, Road signs, Transport
Tagged claim, confusion, Department for Transport, DfT, drivers, evidence, Freedom of Information, metric, metrication, Road signs
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It’s trade or bust for Britain
This is the title of a recent article by Robert Peston, the BBC’s Business Editor. Clearly, successive UK governments over the years have failed to steer the country away from the latter and towards the former. We suggest a simple … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer affairs, Education, General, Road signs
Tagged current account trade deficit, exports, metric, metric road signs, metrication, skilled workforce, trade
11 Comments
What do imperial traffic signs cost?
One of our regular readers, John Frewen-Lord, a retired quantity surveyor, has attempted to answer this question. In this article JF-L refers to the junior Education Minister’s suggestion that there would be more teaching of imperial units in the future … Continue reading
Posted in Education, General, Road signs, Transport
Tagged Department for Transport, DfT, Education, Road signs
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A UK metric time line from 1980
In June last year, we published a time line up to 1980 showing progress towards the adoption of a single, simple, logical and coherent measurement system in the British Isles. We now bring this story up to date.
Posted in Consumer affairs, Education, General, Health, History, Law, Road signs, Science, Sport, Technical
Tagged Britain, imperial, metric, metrication, time line, UK
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DfT misses another trick
The Department for Transport wants to reduce sign clutter. Very commendable, you might think. So why don’t they adopt an obvious measure that would make many signs smaller, simpler and easier to read – and thereby reduce clutter?
Posted in General, Road signs, Transport
Tagged Department for Transport, DfT, imperial road signs, metric road signs, Road signs, sign clutter
9 Comments
Metric traffic signs – an issue that goes round in circles but will not go away
The reply to a recent parliamentary question prompts thoughts about joined-up government in relation to measurement units.
Posted in General, Road signs, Transport
Tagged joined-up government, measurement muddle, measurement units, metric road signs, metrication
49 Comments
Surprise choice for transport
This was the headline in a back number of a trade magazine that recently came to our attention. So who was this choice, why the surprise, and when was he or she chosen for transport?
Posted in History, Road signs, Transport
Tagged Department for Transport, DfT, imperial road signs, metric road signs, metrication
10 Comments
Metrication in Malaysia illustrated
It was not possible to provide illustrations for the article on metric progress in Malaysia that was published on MV in January 2010. We can now remedy this deficiency.
Posted in Road signs, Transport, Views from abroad
Tagged malaysia, metric, metric road signs, metrication
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Aggregation of marginal gains – a way forward for the ailing UK economy
The recent performance of our Olympians, in particular the Team GB cyclists and their support team, is in stark contrast to that of the UK economy. We ask if there are lessons for the British government.
Posted in General, Road signs, Transport
Tagged deficit, Department for Transport, marginal gains, UK economy
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London 2012 – winners and losers
As the Games draw to a close, we take a look at some of the winners and losers.