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Driving the Alaska Highway there are a bunch of markers for historical things along the road like bridges & lookouts. The majority of the Alaska Highway is actu
by grecy 4y ago
Driving the Alaska Highway there are a bunch of markers for historical things along the road like bridges & lookouts. The majority of the Alaska Highway is actually in Canada, and so all the signs are now in Kilometers and they say things like "Historical marker 1550km (old mile marker 965)".
I was standing at one taking a look and an older couple came over and loudly exclaimed "It's a damn sacrilege to the memory of those young men who built the road they would go and change it like that."
They were adamant changing it to kilometers was unacceptable, because old reasons.
- toss1 4y agoSounds like the people objecting to the introduction of time zones due to speed of rail transport, saying that "they are defiling God's time!", as if it was God that invented it, and not humans that decided that Noon was conveniently the point where the sun was highest in the sky and crossed the meridian.