Driving on the right
Driving on the right
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Can someone enlighten me when the US & Canada changed from driving on the left to the right? (I understand that the US changed some time after the French Revolution.)
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RE: Driving on the right
RE: Driving on the right
RE: Driving on the right
After the revolution changing the direction of traffic in some warped way indicated solidarity with the poor. I imagine then the walkers had to change to the left!! My understanding was that in general the countries conquered by Napoleon were changed by edict. (Thus Sweden kept to the left until 1969).
I have heard it said that the USA switched to the right in solidarity with France. Is this true? & when? and what of Canada?
RE: Driving on the right
www.travel-library.com/general/driving/drive_which_side.html
seems somewhat of an authority on the subject (after 1920 for half of Canada and about 1800 in USA).
RE: Driving on the right
RE: Driving on the right
One of these, a parody on our phased conversion to the metric system, was a phased conversion from driving on the right to driving on the left,
Trucks and buses first.
Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng
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