Driving On The Left

[Hopkirk]

Am I correct that China drives on the right, but Hong Kong on the left?

It must be confusing at the border.

[Toureman]

http://users.telenet.be/worldstandards/driving%20on%20the%20left.htm#history

[Toureman]

When I was driving in Hong Kong it was driving on the left but since the Chinese got back Hong Kong it might have changed.

[Hopkirk]

No, still on the left apparently Toureman.

[abstibus]

Are you sure that video is not Cookstown in NI?
As for the Chinese - they drive on both sides of the road- simultaneously.

[heathfield]

Back in 1969 the British government proposed changing over to driving on the right, but this was eventually turned down on the grounds of cost. Nevertheless some motorway junctions were designed and built in the expectation that the legislation would go ahead. You can recognise them by their long deceleration lanes and short acceleration lanes, (the wrong way round for driving on the left), and by a wrongness of the sharper and gentler curves in the slip-roads.
Until 1967, when Sweden changed to driving on the right, there were more miles of road throughout the world where people drove on the left rather than on the right.

[Graham-W]

A friend of mine was driving in Paris with the Sat Nav on. As he approached the L'Arc De Triumphe he swears the Sat Nav said, "Enter the roundabout, and take the thirteenth exit."
Braver man than me.

[Hopkirk]

I can only count twelve, but that's more than enough!

http://www.sylvie-tribut-astrologue.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/paris-place-de-letoile.jpg