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12th of April 2014
Dear Sir/Madam,
TRAM MEASURES
Whilst
reading about the latest problems with Edinburgh's Trams (Evening News
12 April), I couldn't help but notice that the deficient lengths of
track were described in metres and kilometres.
The Victorian
engineers who built our original system did a very good job using feet
and inches. Perhaps it is this fetish for metrication (one unfortunately
shared by your newspaper) which has led to uncertainty and imprecision
in construction and has brought us to the present fiasco?
In the
increasingly likely event that everything has to be dug up again and the
tracks relaid, it is still not too late to insist on the use of
Imperial measure thus restoring appropriate precision and familiarity to
the undertaking.
John Eoin Douglas
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