Re: Right / Left


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Posted by Duncan on June 26, 2013 at 00:23:03 user Duncan.

In Reply to: Re: Right / Left posted by Ed Kiser on June 25, 2013 at 13:31:51:

Sweden voted overwhelmingly in favour of keeping driving on the left in 1955, but the parliament ignored it and brought in right-hand-side driving regardless (from which point mainland Europe became all "right"). Apparently it just changed overnight (with a lot of advertising and "awareness-raising". It must have been really quite strange. And they also had to order loads of new buses with the doors opening on the other side.


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