Is that the reason the public was given in NZ?
Here I heard it was that the U.S. didn't recognize any sovereign
claims in Antarctica, ergo, no road rules, either.
LN

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Brendan Whyte <bwhyte@u...> wrote:
> At 01:21 PM 7/12/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> >Just for the record, one does not have to change from right to left or
> >v.v. in Japan when one drives onto U.S. bases there. The U.S. accepts
> >Japanese conditions.
>
> but the US forces NZers to drive on the right in the Ross Dependency,
> because their research base has more vehicles than the NZ base...
>
> As for HK-China, like the border between Shenzhen China and the rest of
> Guangzhou (which is fenced), all traffic is checked, passports/permits
> stamped etc. So the HK border is very busy, but you certainly can't
just
> drive straight through. The Chinese love flyovers, so if you ever
can drive
> through, there will be a flyover to put you on the correct side.
>
> The question is, do the walkways for pedestrians have some
mini-flyover ,
> or do people have to barge through each other to walk on the correct
side?
> Given that Brits walk on the left, but the escalators in tube
stations ask
> you to stand on the right, it's no wonder London tube stations are a
human
> traffic jam!
>
> The most authoritative reference that I am aware of on this subject
is a
> book called The Rule of the Road: An International Guide to History and
> Practice by Peter Kincaid (Greenwood Press, 1986; 239 pages; ISBN
> 0-313-25249-1), available from the publisher at
>
<http://info.greenwood.com/books/0313252/0313252491.html>http://info.greenwood.com/books/0313252/0313252491.html.
>
> Brendan