Why there's a highway sign in kilometers on the Bay Area's Interstate 580

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Article on what may be the only dual unit distance sign remaining in California.

The article discusses start of FHWA efforts to convert road design and signage to metric, resistance by the states, California allowing either for a while and the descision in 2006 to require everything be Customary. In their hatred of all things metric, CalTrans promises they will get around to replacing the sign someday.

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/how-kilometers-appeared-on-bay-area-highway-sign-18601009.php

Highways stand as one of the few areas where the states made substantial progress in adopting metric then spent money to revert completely to Customary, and 50 of 50 states did so.

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