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Kungsgatan, Stockholm, 3 September 1967, at or around the moment of transition at 5:00 AM, on the morning when Sweden changed from left-side traffic to right-side traffic [1] Dagen H campaign logo Left-hand traffic in Stockholm in 1966. Dagen H (H-day), today usually called "Högertrafikomläggningen" (lit.
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 ...
A non-binding referendum on the introduction of right hand traffic was held in Sweden on 16 October 1955. [1] The voter turnout was 53.2%, and the suggestion failed by 15.5% against 82.9%. [1] However, eight years later, in 1963, the Riksdag approved the change, following pressure from the Council of Europe [2] and the Nordic Council. [3]
The British drive on the left side of the road while we, in America, drive on the right side. ... Some evidence for this can be found by looking at a map of the Napoleonic empire in 1812 ...
Sweden has right-hand traffic today, like all its neighbours. Sweden had left-hand traffic (Vänstertrafik in Swedish) from approximately 1736 and continued to do so until 1967. Despite this virtually all cars in Sweden were actually left-hand drive and the neighbouring Nordic countries already drove on the right, leading to mistakes by visitors.
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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]