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		<title>FAQs about the transition to metric signs on UK roads</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/transition-to-metric-signs-on-uk-roads-faqs/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/transition-to-metric-signs-on-uk-roads-faqs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ronniec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers have commented recently on the obstacles to the transition to metric-only signs on Britain’s roads. This has prompted Metric Views to offer answers to some Frequently Asked Questions on this subject. In 2006, the UK Metric Association (UKMA) produced &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/transition-to-metric-signs-on-uk-roads-faqs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why I became involved with measurement matters</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/why-i-became-involved-with-measurement-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ronniec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our readers has written to explain why he became interested in the campaign to complete Britain&#8217;s prolonged metric changeover. Ronnie Cohen wrote recently to Metric Views: &#8220;Out of all the bread-and-butter issues that top the political agenda, you &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/why-i-became-involved-with-measurement-matters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>DfT rejects industry view on metric signs</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/dft-rejects-industry-view-on-metric-signs/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/dft-rejects-industry-view-on-metric-signs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Road signs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department for Transport (DfT) has given in to anti-metric lobbying and backtracked on its earlier proposal that imperial-only height and width restriction signs should be replaced with dual metric/imperial signs within four years.  This climbdown is despite the responses &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/dft-rejects-industry-view-on-metric-signs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Heading for the exit?</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/12/heading-for-the-exit/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/12/heading-for-the-exit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Problems of sovereign debt in the eurozone have seen the UK side-tracked in EU decision making, and, say some commentators, headed for the exit. Is this situation likely to impact on the UK’s stalled metric changeover? The editors of Metric &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/12/heading-for-the-exit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who should pay for metrication of road signs?</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/12/who-should-pay-for-metrication-of-road-signs/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/12/who-should-pay-for-metrication-of-road-signs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://metricviews.org.uk/?p=2463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Department for Transport have claimed that converting road signs to show metric units would be an unjustifiable diversion of resources from other priority areas.  So is there an argument that the costs should be met from some other budget?  &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/12/who-should-pay-for-metrication-of-road-signs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Review fails to address major traffic sign issues</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/10/review-fails-to-address-major-traffic-sign-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/10/review-fails-to-address-major-traffic-sign-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://metricviews.org.uk/?p=2370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A three-year review of traffic signs has failed to address major problems with the UK&#8217;s signs. On 13 October the Department for Transport published the final report of its Traffic Signs Policy Review. The report, &#8220;Signing the Way&#8221;, marks the &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/10/review-fails-to-address-major-traffic-sign-issues/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Spotlight falls (again) on the high cost of construction in the UK</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/10/spotlight-falls-again-on-the-uks-high-construction-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/10/spotlight-falls-again-on-the-uks-high-construction-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The magazine New Civil Engineer (NCE) reports this week on a recent conference in Barcelona which highlighted the wide difference between the cost of infrastructure in the UK and on the continent. So it seems that the inflated 2006 estimate &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/10/spotlight-falls-again-on-the-uks-high-construction-costs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Road safety experts ignore UK sign problems</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/07/road-safety-experts-ignore-uk-sign-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/07/road-safety-experts-ignore-uk-sign-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent report into the safety implications of variations in road signs across Europe has ignored problems caused by the UK’s continued use of imperial units. In the last decade, 2 million Europeans lost their lives or suffered crippling injury &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/07/road-safety-experts-ignore-uk-sign-problems/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>Spain discredits DfT&#8217;s case against metric signs</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/03/spain-discredits-dfts-case-against-metric-signs/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/03/spain-discredits-dfts-case-against-metric-signs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tonyw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spanish government this week exposed the Department for Transport’s case against adopting metric road signs in the UK as flawed. While the DfT maintains that it must allow an average of around £1400 to change our road signs, Spain this week changed all its motorway speed limit signs for an average cost of just €41, or £35.
 <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/03/spain-discredits-dfts-case-against-metric-signs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>How decimalisation succeeded while metrication stalled</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/02/how-decimalisation-succeeded-while-metrication-stalled/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/02/how-decimalisation-succeeded-while-metrication-stalled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media like nothing better than an anniversary, so it was predictable that the 40th anniversary of &#8220;decimal day&#8221; &#8211; 15 February, 1971, when the UK finally gave up its archaic and inconvenient coinage and currency &#8211; would get a &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/02/how-decimalisation-succeeded-while-metrication-stalled/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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