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I'm looking at the actual text of the law, and I'm not seeing where the spending of federal money on metric signage is actually prohibited. Rather...
Placement and modification of signs. --The Secretary shall not require the States to expend any Federal or State funds to construct, erect, or otherwise place or to modify any sign relating to a speed limit, distance, or other measurement on a highway for the purpose of having such sign establish such speed limit, distance, or other measurement using the metric system.
All I see is the law preventing the USDOT from requiring that signs be updated or replaced for the sake of metrication; the money would still be available if the States request it. The very next section also prevents the USDOT from putting metric requirements on highway planning and the like, at least not before 2000 September 30.
I'm really not getting where the Federal Highway Authority's website gets the "prohibited" interpretation from. Guppy313 ( talk) 06:42, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
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I'm looking at the actual text of the law, and I'm not seeing where the spending of federal money on metric signage is actually prohibited. Rather...
Placement and modification of signs. --The Secretary shall not require the States to expend any Federal or State funds to construct, erect, or otherwise place or to modify any sign relating to a speed limit, distance, or other measurement on a highway for the purpose of having such sign establish such speed limit, distance, or other measurement using the metric system.
All I see is the law preventing the USDOT from requiring that signs be updated or replaced for the sake of metrication; the money would still be available if the States request it. The very next section also prevents the USDOT from putting metric requirements on highway planning and the like, at least not before 2000 September 30.
I'm really not getting where the Federal Highway Authority's website gets the "prohibited" interpretation from. Guppy313 ( talk) 06:42, 18 August 2008 (UTC)