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Because we are metric in the Uk. What's more odd is distances from London for things in London. Presumably from some bogus centre.
by justincormack 14y ago
Because we are metric in the Uk.
What's more odd is distances from London for things in London. Presumably from some bogus centre.
- kirchhoff 14y agoNot in all cases. Distances of such length are almost always measured in miles here.
- buro9 14y agoOnly because of road signage and a failure to complete the move to metric. I tend to use both miles and KM. Miles in the car, KM on the bicycle. I understand and can visualise what a KM is better than what a mile is though.
- VBprogrammer 14y agoDistances and speeds on our road system are always measured in miles. As such most British people generally have a much stronger intuition of Miles than they do Kilometres (except strangely runners who quite often use Kilometres).
- justincormack 14y agoMaybe it depends if you have a car. Runners, cyclists, people who go by train, people who travel to Europe, technical people all use km. I wouldn't have ever thought of using miles on a website...
- MattBearman 14y ago(Unfortunately) that's not true. All road distances are Miles here in the UK. By this I mean road signs, maps, vehicle speedometers and trips, etc. I wish we did use Km - I just spent a couple of months riding my motorcycle around Europe, and metric everything just felt so much more intuitive.