[Healeys] Left is right

[Jean Caron]

Several years ago, a political party in Quebec known as the Rhinoceros party
had made a promise that, if elected, they would introduce driving on the left
side. As good politicians do, they were going to introduce it in stages, cars
first, then a month later trucks and buses............they di not get
elected.



Jean Caron

> From: Editorgary at aol.com
> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:29:05 -0500
> To: healey.nut at gmail.com; Editorgary at aol.com
> CC: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Left is right
>
> In a message dated 11/29/09 8:23:18 PM, healey.nut at gmail.com writes:
>
>
> > The reason Britain, Japan and, at one time, Sweden drive on the left is
> > because they are maritime nations; their economy was based on the sea.
When
> > these maritime nations were developing their Rules of the Road for
> > automobiles in the early 20th century, they turned to Rules of Road that
were
> > already in place; Maritime Rules of the Road
> >
>
> But that doesn't exactly explain to me why, in prehistory, probably a few
> years before there were maritime rules of the road, the British (or Celts,
or
> whatever they were calling themselves at the time) were already following
> the convention of driving their hauling vehicles on the driver's left as
> proven from archaelogical records.
> Gary
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