Thread: Which side of the road to drive on?

There are certainly some that already drive on the right side of the road - down on the Great Ocean Road. Lots of American and European visitor regularly pull out of parking bays and lookouts onto the wrong side of the road. There are even signs now at every carpark along the way as you turn onto the road "In Australia we drive on the LEFT side of the road."

Still doesn't stop some of them doing it...

Well my logic is simple ..........................

It makes absolutely no sense at all to change from driving on the left to driving on the right in Australia.

So given the way our politicians work .................................. when is this change scheduled to take place.

Originally Posted by Eevo

it would work. just think about it for a bit.

Previous examples have shown it does work on some freeways.

For a short time.

Originally Posted by jx2mad

Don't they try it now with idiots overtaking over double lines over the crests of blind hills? For some it would come naturally

Except these same morons would then start driving on the left of unbroken lines and over crests etc.

Originally Posted by ATH

It's always amazed me all Oz states agreed to drive on the left as they can't even manage to agree on the same road rules applying everywhere.
Let's not even suggest changing to the wrong side of the road as I suspect some our big noting big spending pollies would just love to do it and bugger the expence.
Just think of the jollies them and their fat cat bureaucrap mates could have jetting around the world to see how it's done.....
AlanH.

Let's get all our cars the same gauge first,

Sweden swapped in 1963.

I was amazed at the number of LHD cars in japan. Apparently it is a status symbol, with some people even importing japanese cars from europe so they are LHD, and upmarket carparks having the ticket machines on the left.

I drove in Europe for years and took a LHD car to the uk, so it wouldn't bother me either way.

In Northern Italy the trucks that go up into the mountains are frequently RHD, this is because when they have to pass other trucks on the narrow mountain tracks they want to be able to make sure they don't drop a wheel (and the truck with them in it) off the edge of a cliff, many of them hundreds of metres high.

When I was last there, on the motorways there were automatic coin collecting machines on the left of the lane for cars and on both the left and right of the lane at truck height.

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Sweden swapped in 1963.
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Actually the referundum decision was made in 1963 the change didn't happen till September 1967 (it happened after our decimal currency day, which I remember well).

I did mean for Australia to swap to standardise with the rest of most of the world