[ExI] puzzler

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 23:41:14 UTC 2018


Why was England marking something in miles per hour instead of
kilometers per hour?  adrian

Dunno.  Maybe the author of the post I read converted to mph.

bill w

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 5:30 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 6:21 PM, William Flynn Wallace
> <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's one you can get your psychological teeth into:
> >
> > When England’s Bath and North East Somerset Council, at a cost of 871,000
> > pounds (US$1.18 million), lowered the speed limit to 20 mph in 13
> > high-accident zones, it made a difference, and quickly: in the first
> year,
> > fatalities and serious injuries due to traffic increased significantly.
>
> Why was England marking something in miles per hour instead of
> kilometers per hour?
>
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