Thailand-Laos: traffic crossing the Friendship Bridge from Nongkhai
(Thailand) keeps to the left in both directions. The Laos border post
is on the left-hand side of the road when viewed from the Thai side,
and as one approaches the post the traffic lanes cross at grade level,
so that both northbound and southbound vehicles are processed on the
right-hand side of the building. There may be a "yield" sign at the
crossover point, but in any case the volume of vehicular traffic is
usually quite low, and no problem seems to arise.
Thailand-Myanmar border at Mae Sai/Tachilek: this is also a bridge
border. Vehicles wait on either side to cross the bridge, and are
alternately directed across in a single lane as in a road works
situation, and once they have crossed over they automatically find
themselves on the correct side of the road.
These are the only two cases of which I have personal experience, but
I recall hearing that between Hong Kong and the PRC there is a flyover
to ensure that border crossing traffic ends up on the correct side of
the road. Can anyone confirm this?
It's an interesting topic, and I hope others can shed some light on
what happens at other "dry border" crossings.
KS
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@c...>
wrote:
>
> The list includes Bhutan-China - there are no motorable roads
between
> the two, only paths. It is illegal to cross that border - and at
> 20,000 feet elevation plus, not hard to avoid. The border is closed
> tightly.
> LN
>
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
<jesniel@i...>
> wrote:
> > I think the "problem" here is that these may not busy borders.
> >
> > Perhaps except HK-China.
> >
> > Others?
> >
> > Jesper
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: kahbeh2000
> > To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:15 PM
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] borders with left lane and right lane
traffic
> >
> >
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > did we ever treat the subject of borders where they drive on the
> > opposite of the road, and I mean 'dry borders'?
> >
> > I found a list where this is the case:
> >
> > Left km Right
> >
> > Pakistan 909 Iran
> > Pakistan 2430 Afghanistan
> > Pakistan 523 China
> > Nepal 1236 China
> > Bhutan 470 China
> > India 3380 China
> > India 1463 Myanmar
> > Bangladesh 193 Myanmar
> > Thailand 1800 Myanmar
> > Thailand 1754 The Lao People's Democratic Republic
> > Thailand 803 Cambodia
> > Hong Kong 30 China
> > Macao 0.34 China
> > Namibia 1376 Angola
> > Zambia 1110 Angola
> > Zambia 1930 The Democratic Republic of the Congo
> > Tanzania 459 The Democratic Republic of the Congo
> > Tanzania 451 Burundi
> > Tanzania 217 Rwanda
> > Uganda 169 Rwanda
> > Uganda 765 Democratic Republic of the Congo
> > Uganda 435 Sudan
> > Kenya 232 Sudan
> > Kenya 861 Ethiopia
> > Kenya 682 Somalia except Somaliland
> > Somaliland ? Somalia except Somaliland
> > Somaliland ? Ethiopia
> > Somaliland 58 Djibouti
> > Guyana 743 Venezuela
> > Guyana 1119 Brazil
> > Suriname 597 Brazil
> > Suriname 510 French Guiana
> >
> > Enjoy.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Bernd Kueck
> >
> >
> >
> >
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