I've often wondered if it is coincidence that most countries that still
drive on the left side of the road are islands: GB, Austrailia & NZ, and
Japan. Seems that the confusion and inconvenience at borders may have
kept continental countries driving on the same side of the road.
Jim Davis
Fortson, GA
'75 TR6 CF38690UO
'75 TR6 CF37325U
On Wed, 3 Sep 1997 17:52:28 -0400 (EDT) ArthurK101@aol.com writes:
>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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