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The absurdity of the use of kph

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  First and foremost I apologise (yet again) for such a long gap in between blog posts. The return of freedom over the past year has kept me away from screens. They say it takes 66 days to develop a new habit. Running is a habit I developed over lockdown, but the return to the office (and I intend to never work from home again) and frequenting the pub has reduced frequency of this.  It is, however, not completely bleak for my physical well-being. Cramming a number of social events in after work has led to me doing a lot more walking around central London. I don’t have an Apple Watch, (other brands of smart watch exist), but my iPhone records my steps and a lot of really interesting data on my walking and running. As would be no surprise, I’ve configured everything in metric units. Thankfully, gone are the days where Apple would dictate to you , based on your location, the units of measurement you use. You have a chose whether to specify distances in miles or kilometres....

km/h speed limits in LONDON!

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In my travels around the United Kingdom, I've seen many progressive metric signs, such as metric-only width & height restrictions, metric fingerposts and the like. However, today, whilst walking down "Millionaire's lane" I saw the light... the use of km/h speed limits here in London. One may think of this as being too good to be true if you're a metrichead, and indeed there are some flaws: 1. The km/h speed limit is not a 'regular' number; (24 km/h rather than 25 km/h) 2. The km/h sign is not stand-alone. It is below a sign stating the speed limit in MPH (15 MPH) 3. The km/h speed sign shows uses the horrible kph abbreviation, rather than the the standardised symbol (km/h) With that being said, we have to admit, that this is still good. People are recognising that we can not remain in the dark ages of miles and yards.