Just heard this last week on the news:
The Irish republic has officially changed form miles to kilometers.
Many thousands of road signs has been changed!
I know the UK and Ireland already changed to liters instead of gallons, so
there still is hope....
Cheers,
Hans - always on the right side of the road.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul T. Root" <ptroot@iaces.com>
To: "Rocky Frisco" <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>; <mg-t@autox.team.net>; <mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: Why do (or did) the British drive on the left.
> We were passing on the right long before the shotgun was invented.
>
> This doesn't explain why, in Europe, on the the British Isle's drive
> on the left and the rest on the right. Italy, France, etc all had the
> same Roman influences.
>
>
> Rocky Frisco wrote:
>> yd3@nvc.net wrote:
>>
>>> Why didn't America bear left? We had no knights! We didn't even have
>>> the developed roadways of Europe. The few roadways were barely one
>>> horse wide let alone a carriage wide so we went down the middle. When
>>> it became necessary to designate a side for vehicle traffic we went
>>> right. (Take that any way you want!) Why? I haven't really considered
>>> it.
>>
>>
>> Our weapon of choice protecting the wagon or stagecoach was a shotgun or
>> rifle. Right-handed people hold the long gun on the lap, pointed to the
>> left, so we pass on the right, so as to have the weapon ready to shoot to
>> the left.
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