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On Any Scale, Metric Conversion Is a Flop

Publication Date: 14-MAR-05
Author:  Aileen Cho, J.T. Long and Tony Illia
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The California Dept. of Transportation is reverting back to the English system from the metric system, joining a majority of the country’s state transportation agencies that found across-the-board resistance to metric conversion too strong. California’s defection signals the overall failure of a 1992 federal mandate.

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