Hey what ever happened to Metrification?

[Linus Van Pelt]

I find that in Canada there is a strong correlation between people's everyday use of metric and whether you normally get the information from a government source. Thus road signs for both distance and speed are exclusively in km, and thus miles are pretty uncommon even in everyday conversation, while people still measure themselves in feet or pounds. Weather is always exclusively C, since most media ultimately get their forecasts from the national Meteorological Service, and younger people often have no intuitive sense of F weather at all, while temperature in cooking is still mostly F since the market for ovens and cookbooks is private and integrated with the US. I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't seem to break down this way in the UK, particularly with the roads.