Why some countries drive on the left side of the road?
Why Don t We drive on the same side of the road around the world.
The reasons that lead countries of the world is on the left side of the road or the road right are presented chronologically An array of lists of countries all countries and they drive on the left side of the road or the right side of the road Some links have also been added to the references on the subject of the history of traffic lights.
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DOT Australian historian G. Lay drew the first regulation to one side or the other in the Chinese bureaucracy 1100 BC The Book of Rites said the right side of the road for men, the left side for women and the center the cars Western Zhou dynasty rule applied only to large official routes of the dynasty and was more concerned with the protocol to avoid frontal collisions.
Dyer Bryn Walters determined Romans drove on the left Walters found a track in the ancient Roman quarry in Blunsdon Ridge The track was used to bring the stone from the career of a great Roman temple being built on the ridge close close Swindon, England, and then fell out of use, it is very well preserved and as the carts went to empty and come out loaded with stone, ruts one side of the road are much deeper than that they are on the other finding the Romans drove on the left.
Adams there are seven hundred years, everyone used the English system in the Middle Ages you kept left simply because you never know who you meet on the road of those days; you want to make sure that a stranger happened right for you to go for your sword in case he proved hostile.
Adams This custom was given official sanction in 1300 AD, when Pope Boniface VIII invented modern science traffic control by declaring that pilgrims headed to Rome should stay on the left denies Library Travel Library Travel, saying that Kincaid has found no trace of this place decree, he found evidence that in 1300, Pope Boniface VIII ordered pilgrims on the Sant'Angelo bridge en route to and from the St. Peter's Basilica to keep right.
Adams papal system prevailed until the late 1700s, when teamsters in the United States and France began transporting agricultural products in large wagons pulled by several pairs of horses These cars had seat driving; instead the driver sat on the left rear horse, so he could keep his right arm to lash the team since you were sitting on the left, you naturally want everyone passes left for you look down and make sure you stay free of Ergo wheels of the other guys, you kept on the right side of the road.
Adams In a small-is-beautiful England, however, they use didn t monster cars that require the driver to ride; instead the guy sitting on a seat mounted on the car What's more, it usually stood on the right side of the seat so that the whip wouldn t hang up the load behind him when he whipped the horses Then, as now most people have their right-handed whipping While the English continued to drive on the left holding left first entered English law in 1756, with the promulgation of an ordinance regulating the traffic on the bridge of London, and eventually became the rule in the British Empire Hamer He extended the rule in 1772 to cities in Scotland worth disobey the law was 20 shillings 1 Amphicars According to the British government presented the overall Highway Act of 1773 contains a recommendation dungeon left to regulate the movement of horses This became law as part of the road of the bill in 1835.
Adams The first known law of keep-right in the US was passed in Pennsylvania in 1792 and in the years numerous Canadian states and provinces that followed followed in 1792, Pennsylvania passed a law to establish a barrier toll from Lancaster to Philadelphia charter the law provided that travel is on the right side of the toll road in New York, in 1804, became the first state to travel to prescribe the right hand on all public roads by war civil, was followed Travel right hand in all state drivers tended to stay on the right so that they can ensure their stroller, car or other vehicle didn t run into a ditch by the roadside.
Adams in France before the revolution, the aristocracy quickly traveled to the left, forcing the peasantry to the right after Amphicars According aristocrats of the revolution joined the peasants right a straight edge dungeon was introduced in Paris in 1794 before Napoleon imposed a keep-right rule in all the countries occupied by its armies, and custom endured long after the empire was destroyed Hamer revolutionary wars and the subsequent conquests of Napoleon spread the news Rightist in the Netherlands, Switzerland , Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain.
Hamer States that had resisted Napoleon remain largely left - Britain, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia and Portugal of these independent states, only Denmark converted to RHD in 1793 The European division between nations to the left and right hand remained stationary for more than 100 years after the First World war.
Adams trend among nations over the years has been to driving on the right, but Britain has done its best to avoid the global homogenization its former colony India remains a hotbed of leftist sentiment, as Indonesia, which was occupied by the British in the early nineteenth century Hamer said that the Dutch have influenced Indonesia to go left before the British Thanks to UK, Australasia and Africa also go left, except Egypt Egypt was conquered by Napoleon before becoming a British dependency, and its traffic goes to the right.
Adams The British Minister in Japan got hit in his career in 1839 when he persuaded his hosts to keep left the law in the future home of Toyota and Mitsubishi Interestingly, Amphicars said that he arrived in the 1850s in 1850, the gunboat diplomacy forced the Japanese to open their ports to British and Sir Rutherford Alcock, who was Queen Victoria man from the Japanese court persuaded them to adopt the keep left rule According to other sites, Alcock didn t go to Japan until his appointment in 1858 I believe Adams not mean 1859 1839 until the Meiji Restoration in 1867, 1868, people traveled mainly on foot or horseback and not use motorable.
DOT When the inventors started automobile construction in the 1890s, they thought that motorized wagons Consequently, many early cars had the rudder steering mechanism or bar, not a wheel in the center position where the side road didn t make a difference Lay stressed that technical innovation has created the configuration we know in the United States.
However, with the introduction of flying in 1898 a central location was not technically possible Automakers typically copied existing practices and placed the driver on the curb So most American cars produced before 1910 were made with conducting seats right side, though for right side driving such vehicles remained in use until 1915 current and 1908 Model T was the first Ford cars to make a left side driving position.
In 1915, the Model T had become so popular that the rest of the automakers followed the example of Ford.
Hamer Russie going to drive right into the last days of the Tsars Portugal changed right in the 1920s.
Hamer The breaking of the Austro-Hungarian Empire caused no change; Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary continued to drive on itself was something of a curiosity left Austria half of the country led to the left and the right half of the dividing line is precisely the area affected by Napoleon's conquests in 1805 Napoleon gave the Tyrol, western province of Austria, in Bavaria He continued to stay on the right, although the majority of Austrians led left.
2pass In 1924, Japan adopted a law of conduct left.
Adams, however, the power of law has grown When Germany annexed Austria in 1938, brutally suppressed these rights continue to the left, and much the same thing happened in Czechoslovakia in 1939 Hamer March 12 1938 Hitler invaded Austria and the next day proclaimed Anschluss, the absorption of Austria into Germany he ordered that traffic has to go from left to right of the road, the night shift was the public driving in turmoil, because motorists were unable to see most of the road signs in Vienna, proved it impossible to change the trams overnight, and although all other traffic has the right side of the road, trams continued left to run for several weeks Czechoslovakia and Hungary last two states on the continent of Europe to keep left, changed right after being invaded by Germany 1939.
During the U occupation Okinawa, Japan led on the right side Okinawa changed left again when it was returned to Japan.
Dyer Korea is now the right engine, but only because he went directly from the Japanese colonial rule in the American and Russian influence at the end of World War II.
Hamer Pakistan also considered switching to the right in the 1960s The main argument against the change was that often leads camel train in the night while their drowsy drivers The difficulty in teaching old camels new tricks was decisive to force Pakistan to reject the change.
Canada New Brunswick, Nova Scotia 01.12.1922, 04.15.1923.
History Cars Since 1 December 1922, had been a problem for car drivers who crossed the border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick - that date from New Brunswick had changed to driving on the right road, while Nova Scotia remained the left side rule for four and a half months, drivers who cross the border in both directions must remember to change to the other side of the road, and even levels relatively low traffic that day, there were some myopic failures resulting from this conflict.
The switch has had an interesting effect on the beef industry in Lunenburg County, 1923 is still known as the free beef Year; beef prices fell sharply for the oxen that had been trained to stay on the left could not be oxen retraining are notoriously slow keen mind and many teamsters had to replace their herds by new trained to keep right; displaced cattle were sent for slaughter.
Adams's last strongholds in continental Europe, the Swedes finally went right in 1967 because most of the countries, they sold Saabs and Volvos were handed in and they are tired of having to make different versions for home use and export Library Travel Swedish government felt increasing pressure to switch sides to comply with the rest of Europe Anders Hanquist written, the problem with driving on the left in Sweden was, of course, that all our neighbors already drive on the right side there are many small roads without border guards, leading in Norway, so we had to remember what country you were another curiosity is that most running cars in Sweden were built for driving on the right, it means that the steering wheel was on the left side even imported cars in Britain were built this way which Sweden e trams along the switched cars, trams had also in 1962, there were 405 trams in Stockholm but Stockholm trams decided to withdraw all the city trams and nearly 400 older buses rather than converting them to Continental drive right standard on September 2, 1967, the last tram ran in the inner city of Stockholm and just a few hours later, the rule of the road was changed from left to the Swedish Institute law may not cause Indeed, but with the route change, Sweden has begun large-scale work of road safety, for example, instead of roads without restrictions were imposed speed limits.
The Tex thread lovers MG Cars said There is also an old tradition where the man is walking on the sidewalk of the lady, then that's almost disappeared today, it's origins date back to that time where a man was supposed to be chivalrous and protect his lady and here we are back at the beginning again, with a man walking left his wife to his left arm and his sword presented to all enemies oncoming or POE falling this reminded me that I also said when I was young to walk curbside American form of kerbside to protect a lady, and it was because being a New Yorker at this time, the threat robbers was coming at you from between parked cars at one time, in the 70s, I think, I remember the guidelines have changed and a man walking across the lady indeed robbers were now jumps r out of the construction of the input means.
Adams The current battleground is the island of Timor Indonesians, who have in West Timor, were whiling away the hours exterminating the indigenous culture of the East Timorese issue Some say it is religion, some say it ' is the language, but I know the truth in east Timor, they drive on the right, in West Timor, they drive on the left.
Sorry mate, but East Timor Indonesia grows on the left leads to the left Portugal too, the original colonizers of East Timor led to the left until the 1920s, the Netherlands has led to left until the time of Napoleon, but the Dutch colonies mostly stayed on the left has made Indonesia Russia has also led to the left until the 1st World war, many countries have changed most of time right as volume increased marine traffic Look Canada 4 provinces and British Columbia that everything changed for driving on the right between 1921 and 1947 the anomalous regions in countries driving on the left led to the right and had change to the left for similar reasons that Canada has done right.
2pass Why Japan drive on Adams left This web page was originally founded an e-mail to the Unicode list Unfortunately, I lost track of the author There have been updates to other sources since I looked up mail in Unicode archives, Tue Aug 19 1997-1911 59 10 EDT the source is quoted as Cecil Adams Return Straight Dope New York Ballantine Books, 1994, 21-23.
Library Travel Travel This page of the library is very complete, but apparently unavailable entitled Which side of the road they drive page recommends a book by Peter Kincaid on the topic The rule of the road International guide to the history and practice Greenwood Press, 1986; 239 pages; ISBN 0-313-25249-1.
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