Excellent news that the new Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, is planning to end the use of kilometres in official transport statistics, and revert to using units that most people can actually understand. If only the BBC would also stop their constant and often laughable pandering to the metrication lobby.
It must be said that Hammond has got off to a good start by proclaiming the end of the “war on the motorist”, even if the coffers are empty for funding new road schemes. He certainly seems to have rattled the cage of the Guardianista lentil-munchers.
