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While the US is holding on to gallons, pounds, and yards for dear life, you can find the metric system if you know where to look—such as in rural Arizona. I-19, which runs between Tucson and Nogales, is the only highway in the country that is fully marked by kilometers: It was a pilot test from President Ford’s (failed) push in 1975 to get America hooked on the metric system, and locals have preserved their quirky highway signs in the decades since.
A skutečně (teda pokud Wiki, která se nikdy nemýlí, lze tímhle slovem popsat) —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_19"I-19 is unique among US Interstates because signed distances are given in meters (hundreds or thousands as distance-to-exit indications) or kilometers (as distance-to-destination indications), and not miles. However, the speed limit signs give speeds in miles per hour. According to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), metric signs were originally placed because of the push toward the metric system in the US at the time of the original construction of the highway."
Kdo nehoví angličtině: I-19 je jediná dálnice v USA se značením vzdálenosti metrickým systémem.