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English: A guide sign on Interstate 19 in Arizona. Built in the 1980s, when the United States was considering switching the the metric system. The sign is posted Tucson AZ, warning drivers that the Interstate uses metric measurement on guide signs. (Font used is Series D, sign not to scale.)
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  • Sign: Unknown - Assumed 1990s - 2000s
  • This file: 6 June, 2019
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Drawn in vector format by The Navigators from a photo at US Metric - Arizona Metric Signs. Archived.

 
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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it comes from the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, sign number M1-1, which states specifically on page I-1 that:
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