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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 2025. Directionality of traffic flow by jurisdiction Countries by direction of road traffic, c. 2020 Left-hand traffic Right-hand traffic No data Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side or to the right side ...
English: A map indicating which countries drive on the right side of the road, and which drive on the left side, coupled with whether they use kilometers as a distance/speed unit, or miles. Right-hand traffic, kilometers
It turns out that about 30% of the world’s countries mandate left-side driving and another 70% or so stay to the right. How it got that way is a winding tale. In Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte ...
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A jughandle is a type of ramp or slip road that changes the way traffic turns left at an at-grade intersection (in a country where traffic drives on the right). 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 a standard forward jughandle or near-side jughandle, the
Iceland's parliament (Alþingi) made the following demand of the government on 13 May 1964: [4] "Alþingi urges the government to initiate as soon as possible research into how best to move the traffic to the right hand side of the road." A law was passed in 1965, under which the country would change to driving on the right in 1968. [5]
A hook turn (Australian English) or two-stage turn (British English), also known as a Copenhagen Left (in reference to cyclists specifically and in countries they are ridden on the right), [1] is a road cycling manoeuvre or a motor vehicle traffic-control mechanism in which vehicles that would normally turn from the innermost lane of an intersection instead turn from the outermost lane, across ...
The original MUTCD prohibitory and restrictive signs were text-only (i.e. NO LEFT TURN). [14] Some of these signs continue to be used in the US. Yield signs can be blank or have text with the legend "YIELD" or "GIVE WAY" depending on which country it is. The No Entry / Do Not Enter sign may or may not feature text.