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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 November 2024. Directionality of traffic flow by jurisdiction Countries by direction of road traffic, c. 2020 ⇅ Left-hand traffic ⇵ Right-hand traffic Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side and to the right side ...
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The British drive on the left side of the road while we, in America, drive on the right side. ... It turns out that about 30% of the world’s countries mandate left-side driving and another 70% ...
Dagen H (H-day), today usually called " Högertrafikomläggningen " (lit. 'the right-hand traffic reorganisation'), was on 3 September 1967, the day on which Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right. [2] The "H" stands for " Högertrafik ", the Swedish word for right-hand traffic.
For countries driving on the left, the convention stipulates that the traffic signs should be mirror images of those used in countries driving on the right. This practice, however, is not systematically followed in the four European countries driving on the left – the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Malta and Ireland.
A central island, usually either with drainage, foliage, or high-impact barriers, provides a visible separation between the carriageways in opposite directions. As in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and Japan, South Africans drive on the left-hand side of the road and nearly all steering wheels are on the right-hand side of vehicles.
Jughandle or Jersey left A type of ramp or slip road where instead of a standard left turn being made from the left lane, left-turning traffic uses a ramp on the right side of the road (in countries that drive on the right). Junction A location where multiple roads intersect, allowing vehicular traffic to change from one road to another.