I'm sure it's no coincidence at all. Wouldn't it be interesting to cross
over to Canada and have a traffic light where first one side, then the
other, crosses over? Or better yet, a stop sign where you go one at a
time? Not a pretty sight, I'd imagine.
Jim Ruwaldt
'72 TR6 CC79338U
Bloomington, IN
On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, James H. Davis, Jr. wrote:
> 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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