http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSzl...mv1FE_IDi9ZuiA

On 6/3/2013 12:21 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSzl...mv1FE_IDi9ZuiA


sweden also switched in 1967

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H

interesting in what happened at the exact time it switched.

On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:36:40 -0700, chaniarts
wrote:

On 6/3/2013 12:21 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSzl...mv1FE_IDi9ZuiA


sweden also switched in 1967

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H

interesting in what happened at the exact time it switched.

Flashback, December 1931: Churchill Nearly Killed in Car Accident
He looked the wrong way before crossing the street and was hit by a
car.

On 6/3/13 4:11 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:36:40 -0700, chaniarts
wrote:

On 6/3/2013 12:21 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSzl...mv1FE_IDi9ZuiA


sweden also switched in 1967

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H

interesting in what happened at the exact time it switched.

Flashback, December 1931: Churchill Nearly Killed in Car Accident
He looked the wrong way before crossing the street and was hit by a
car.


Every year in the UK many foreign visitors are killed or injured for
the same reason :-(

On Jun 3, 3:28*pm, Retired wrote:
On 6/3/13 4:11 PM, Metspitzer wrote:





On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:36:40 -0700, chaniarts
wrote:

On 6/3/2013 12:21 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSzl...LNHZvhSor-RW0m...

sweden also switched in 1967

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H

interesting in what happened at the exact time it switched.

Flashback, December 1931: Churchill Nearly Killed in Car Accident
He looked the wrong way before crossing the street and was hit by a
car.

Every year in the UK many foreign visitors are killed or injured for
the same reason :-(- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Many of the more popular tourist areas have signs warning pedestrians
to look BOTH ways before crossing.

On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:21:29 -0400, Metspitzer wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OIj5MuDmjg

On Jun 3, 9:57*pm, "
wrote:
On Jun 3, 3:28*pm, Retired wrote:





On 6/3/13 4:11 PM, Metspitzer wrote:

On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:36:40 -0700, chaniarts
wrote:

On 6/3/2013 12:21 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSzl...LNHZvhSor-RW0m...

sweden also switched in 1967

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H

interesting in what happened at the exact time it switched.

Flashback, December 1931: Churchill Nearly Killed in Car Accident
He looked the wrong way before crossing the street and was hit by a
car.

Every year in the UK many foreign visitors are killed or injured for
the same reason :-(- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Many of the more popular tourist areas have signs warning pedestrians
to look BOTH ways before crossing.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Where in the world would you *not* look both ways before crossing a
street? That's just common sense.

Perhaps you are refering to the signs that remind tourists (and
others) to look right:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications...ges/fig236.jpg

On 06/04/13 09:39 am, DerbyDad03 wrote:

Where in the world would you *not* look both ways before crossing a
street? That's just common sense.

But is it "Look right, then left, then right again" as Brits were
taught, or is it "Look left, then right, then left again?"

Perhaps you are referring to the signs that remind tourists (and
others) to look right:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications...ges/fig236.jpg

I think that crosswalks such as the one shown -- essentially two
separate crosswalks with a central "pedestrian refuge" -- may be more
common in UK cities than in US ones.

Perce