UKIP seems to be banging an empty drum over the use of statute miles on road signs (The Argus, May 13) As far as I am aware, there’s no plan to change from the current system, with road traffic acts specifying that these signs show distances in miles, fractions thereof, and yards.
I wouldn’t want to have a companion driving with me on a Continental road trip who couldn’t interconvert miles and kilometers.
The conversion factor is a relatively simple five-eighths/eight fifths. It’s fairly simple to state that 9km is five and five-eighths miles or, to be “English” about it, some five-and-a-half miles and one furlong.
George Stroud, Rushlake Road, Coldean
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