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Topic: Who gives a ship?

steeplechase
First Class Passenger
Member # 4056

posted 01-29-2007 03:01 AM

Okay this has nothing to do with ships but everybody here seems to have some level of useless nowledge (Thats not a put down even though it reads as one). I am over here in Maylasia on vacation and got into a discussion about driving. Was there not a Country or city that converted from one side of the road to the other and they did it overnight about 20 years ago? I believe that they replaced all the buses because the passengers would now exit the other side? Nothing riding on this but your help is apriciated.

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Anders
First Class Passenger
Member # 2227

posted 01-29-2007 05:52 AM

Hello
Sweden did it in September 1967. Changed from left to right

Anders

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finn-yards
First Class Passenger
Member # 5541

posted 01-29-2007 12:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Anders:
Hello
Sweden did it in September 1967. Changed from left to right
Anders

yes, but IIRC swedes drove cars with RHD even before that. they didn´t have to buy new cars. I don´t know about buses though

sorry to continue this offtopic discussion..

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 01-29-2007 01:39 PM

There is an interesting Wikipedia page on 'Dagen H', 3 September 1967. Also see the page 'Driving on the Left or Right'.

One that I think is missing from here though is a recollection from my schooldays of being told that Hitler demanded Austria change over one night. Trolleybuses/trams? could not of course just swap and I think for some time they were going in the opposite direction to the other traffic with the ensuing chaos... [Vienna I think].

Pam

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Ernst
First Class Passenger
Member # 5369

posted 01-29-2007 01:50 PM

There was mix of driving on the left and on the right side on Austria (depending on the province/region) - when Austria became part of Nazi Germany the whole country had to change to the right side.

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VDK
First Class Passenger
Member # 3460

posted 01-29-2007 02:39 PM

My understanding was that when they made the change they first switched over the buses and trucks to the otherside of the road followed the next day by the cars over.

Doing it this way ensured that most people had to replace what they were driving.

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Globaliser
First Class Passenger
Member # 4153

posted 01-29-2007 05:42 PM

quote:
Originally posted by VDK:
My understanding was that when they made the change they first switched over the buses and trucks to the otherside of the road followed the next day by the cars over.

I always thought that this was the plan mooted by Ireland?

(OK, I'll get my coat.)

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Jonathan
First Class Passenger
Member # 5201

posted 01-29-2007 05:47 PM

IMO it makes more sense to drive with RHD than LHD. Us americans jsut have to make things goofy with our cars. I wish the would convert all LHD to right but thats jsut me.

Jonathan

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NAL
First Class Passenger
Member # 1102

posted 01-30-2007 08:25 AM

Jonathan......it's not just Americans who use LHD. The majority of countries use LHD now.
What are all the advantages of RHD?

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 01-30-2007 10:05 AM

quote:
Originally posted by NAL:
The majority of countries use LHD now.

Countries like India anf Egypt, the cars drive down the middle of the road and come from every direction at once! It would not matter if your car was RHD or LHD!

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Globaliser
First Class Passenger
Member # 4153

posted 01-31-2007 04:28 PM

quote:
Originally posted by NAL:
The majority of countries use LHD now.

Although there are some pretty significant countries that are RHD: India, Indonesia and Japan.

quote:
Originally posted by NAL:
What are all the advantages of RHD?

It was there first?

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LaLa
First Class Passenger
Member # 5684

posted 01-31-2007 10:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by PamM:
There is an interesting Wikipedia page on 'Dagen H', 3 September 1967. Also see the page 'Driving on the Left or Right'.
One that I think is missing from here though is a recollection from my schooldays of being told that Hitler demanded Austria change over one night. Trolleybuses/trams? could not of course just swap and I think for some time they were going in the opposite direction to the other traffic with the ensuing chaos... [Vienna I think].
Pam

wikipedia is a very unreliable source

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