<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">Why was England marking something in miles per hour instead of</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">kilometers per hour?  adrian</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">Dunno.  Maybe the author of the post I read converted to mph.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 5:30 PM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 6:21 PM, William Flynn Wallace<br>
<<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Here's one you can get your psychological teeth into:<br>
><br>
> When England’s Bath and North East Somerset Council, at a cost of 871,000<br>
> pounds (US$1.18 million), lowered the speed limit to 20 mph in 13<br>
> high-accident zones, it made a difference, and quickly: in the first year,<br>
> fatalities and serious injuries due to traffic increased significantly.<br>
<br>
</span>Why was England marking something in miles per hour instead of<br>
kilometers per hour?<br>
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