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Gibraltar did not changes sides in 1925, but at 5am on Sunday 16th June 1929, just over a year after Portugal had made the same change. Parts of Austria changed sides back and forth several times between 12th July 1852 and 19th September 1938. The shortest period was by Vorarlberg, which changed from right to left in 1915 and back to the right in 1921. In 1920, I believe most or all of Austria drove on the left. During the 20th century, there were 55 changes in sides of the road in various countries around the world. The most recent official change was Okinawa (Japan) in 1978 and the most recent unofficial change was the Falkland Islands in 1982 during the Argentinian occupation.

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From: Bill Burke [mailto:bill@...]
Sent: 12 September 2002 08:31
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Changing sides of the road

Gibraltar changed to driving on the right in 1925 because of the border problem.Did Austria dive on the left until 1920? Does anyone know?

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From: nfhodder [mailto:lists@...]
Sent: 11 September 2002 16:56
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Changing sides of the road

Have any of you been to borders where road traffic changes sides of the road? I would be interested to see any photos of this. There are 30 borders worldwide where road traffic changes sides: AFRICA Kenya / Ethopia Kenya / Sudan Namibia / Angola Somalia / Djibouti Somalia / Ethopia Tanzania / Burundi Tanzania / DR Congo Tanzania / Rwanda Uganda / DR Congo Uganda / Rwanda Uganda / Sudan Zambia / Angola Zambia / DR Congo AMERICA Guyana / Brazil Guyana / Venezuela Suriname / Brazil Suriname / French Guyana ASIA Bangladesh / Myanmar Bhutan / China Hong Kong / China India / China India / Myanmar Macao / China Nepal / China Pakistan / Afghanistan Pakistan / China Pakistan / Iran Thailand / Cambodia Thailand / Laos Thailand / Myanmar I think Hong Kong / China may have the highest traffic of these borders. Before Sweden changed to driving on the right in 1967, it had large amount of cross-border traffic with Norway, which was one of the reasons for the change. Apparently, they used to have cross- over bridges at some of the major crossing points. There is a little more on this subject at: http://www.travel-library.com/general/driving/drive_which_side.html

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