A discussion came up at work today concerning which side of the street
various countries drive on. Most of us in the office have lived overseas at
some point in our lives and the discussion recalled some of the problems
which we had encountered when faced with being somewhere where we had to
adapt to driving on the "other" side.
I remember reading, within the last year or so, an interesting magazine
article that traced the reasons why various countries drive on different
sides. The article traced the history of horse drawn vehicles and then gave
the reasons why some places carried left side driving over into the vehicular
age and some switched to the right side. If I remember correctly the author
also listed which countries, and there are quite a few, still drive on the
left side.
Would anyone on the list know of that article or one similar to it? I want
to use it as a reference to show my friends that driving on either side has
definite, logical, historic reasons. TIA
Art Kelly
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