Active Resistance to Metrication
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Active Resistance to Metrication is a British pressure group which removes or amends road signs whose measurements are expressed in metric units only. Under The Traffic Signs Regulations, 1994 roads signs must be in Imperial units only, unless they refer to vehicle width, height or length restrictions, in which case they may be expressed in either Imperial only, or both Imperial and metric, but not metric only.
The definition of "road" is any length of highway or of any other road to which the public has access. This includes privately owned roads to which the public has access as well as highways maintained at public expense.
Removal of these signs is controversial, as UK maps are metric (the Ordnance Survey became metric after World War II) and metric signs are thus consistent with tourist maps. This type of conflict between units used in the UK is referred by the UK Metric Association as a Very British Mess or VBM.
