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President Ford signed a law calling for voluntary conversion to the metric system in December 1975. Various conversion-related activities were started. Some states passed laws requiring it to be taught in schools by 1980.
Interstate 19 between Nogales and Tucson got caught in the middle of this "voluntary" conversion. A lot of their signs are still in metric (km/m). Unfortunately Arizona decided a while ago that any signs that needed replacement would not be replaced with metric signage.
 
Personally, I like the English system. Nothing wrong with furlongs per fortnight.
I prefer weight measured in the American system. But liquids and distance is much easier to understand in the metric system. 500 meters is half a kilometer (duh...kilo means "1000"). I'm not sure how many feet there are in half a mile.
 
I I'm not sure how many feet there are in half a mile.
2640. The only reason I remember that is because in high school we had to run a mile and a half once a month. Three times around the quarter mile track. I was real slow, my best time was about 13 minutes.:(
 
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