Samoan cars ready to switch sides. Next: UK?
Drivers in Samoa in the South Pacific are preparing to switch from driving on the right side of the road to the left after a rule change by the government.
The switchover is due to start at 0550 on Monday (1650GMT), when radio messages will broadcast telling drivers to stop and to prepare to overturn 100 years of motoring tradition.
At the top of the hour will follow a second instruction: to move from the right to the left side of the road.
Critics of the plan claim it will bring mayhem to the highways and byways of this remote South Pacific nation.
"Cars are going to crash, people are going to die - not to mention the huge expense to our country"Tole'afoa Solomona Toa'iloa
Samoa lawyer
It hopes that Samoan expatriates in Australia and New Zealand will now ship used, more affordable vehicles back to their homeland.
To minimise the chaos, a two-day national holiday has been declared to keep cars off the road, and prayers have been said at the country's churches in the hope of blessing the changeover.
MAP - "Left hand" driving versus "Right hand" driving
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8240992.stm
Sorry it was 3 days - well still!
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
Cognac Napoleon banned in Samoa?
...The end is near!
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I read this story else where and at the same time Samoa is also banning alcohol for 3 years!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
East wil rise b4 dat
Damn you Sir.. The South shall rise again... Today Samoa, Tomorrow, Poland , then Ze World!
Napoleon da gr8
Look at the map!
Blue-blood driving is almost dead...
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And USA :O(
That Basterd Napolean !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In France, before the revolution the aristocracy travelled quickly on the left, forcing the peasantry over to the right. According to [Amphicars], after the revolution aristocrats joined the peasants on the right. A keep right rule was introduced in Paris in 1794.
Later Napoleon enforced the keep-right rule in all countries occupied by his armies, and the custom endured long after the empire was destroyed.
[Hamer] The revolutionary wars and Napoleon's subsequent conquests spread the new rightism to the Low Countries, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain.
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http://www.i18nguy.com/driver-side.html
Thankyou for backing up my argument..
For today, please replace baseball bat with sword..
Ancient Rome
Bryn Walters determined Romans drove on the left.
Walters found a track into the old Roman quarry at Blunsdon Ridge.
The track was only used for bringing stone from the quarry to a major Roman temple being built on the nearby ridge (near Swindon in England), and then fell out of use, so it is very well preserved. And since the carts went in empty and came out laden with stone, the ruts on one side of the road are much deeper than they are on the other. The conclusion: Romans drove on the left.
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Middle Ages
Seven hundred years ago, everybody used the English system. In the Middle Ages you kept to the left for the simple reason that you never knew who you'd meet on the road in those days; you wanted to make sure that a stranger passed on the right so you could go for your sword in case he proved unfriendly.
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http://www.i18nguy.com/driver-side.html
The correct side entails the steering wheel being on the right side and driving on the left side of the road...
I thought everyone knew that..
agreed!...the left driving side :)
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Common sense. Everyone should shift to the correct driving side of the road...