Has your local council recently replaced a height/width restriction and not bothered putting up a metric equivalent? Perhaps there was one and it has been removed? Perhaps you're fed up of the "narrow lanes" signs in one of the many motorway roadworks we have to put up with that show > 6' - 6" <?

The number of metric-educated drivers on our roads has surely now grown to the point that not at the very least showing width and height restrictions in metres is irresponsible and potentially dangerous. All children have been educated in metric in the UK since 1974; add to this migration from other countries (both the recent influx from Eastern Europe as well as migration from comonwealth countries such as Australia), the number of foriegn drivers here on holiday or business and the fact that even the Irish Republic is now fully metric. Many new-car handbooks now only show vehicle dimensions only in metric. All new vehicles, bridges and roads are built to metric specifications.

Who takes responsibility if you can't easilly or properly convert an imperial sign to metric or convert the metric measurements of your car into imperial and as a concequence your car and/or a bridge or wall are damaged? Local authorities are required to pay for damage in those cases so it is you, the tax payer, who pays.

Ideally we should have only metric sizes on road signs, but for the moment we should at the very least have both and it should be mandatory. If you agree with this sign the petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/sizeroadsign .