Britain Rejects Change to Right-Hand Rule: "Unnecessary And Costly"
— ■ 1 H , Eeceived Friday, 11.50 a.m. GENEVA, February 17. Britain and Sweden blocked a move to iritroduee the Tighthajid riile of the road throiig'hout the world, aecording to a United Nations, Economic Commission statement.
British and Swedish delegates, during the preparatory work for a new international road traffic convention, objected to a clause compelling all countries to conform to the right-hand ruie within ten years. The British delegate said the change to right-hand' traffic in Britain would cost £150,000,000. The Government's investigations in 1.937 and 1934 had failed to find sufficient^t #on.vincing reasorts to
justifyThe introductidn of righthand traffic. The preparatory committee agreed on a compromisfe clause declaring that a change to righthand traffic was desirable, Another suggestion provldes for uniform police signals and road signs throughout the world, simplified customs and frontier formalitieS and generally accepted specifica- - tions and safety standards for road i .vehicles in international traffic.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 February 1949, Page 5
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