Dear all of of the United Kingdom:
You do not get to make jokes about imperial vs metric measurements while still clinging to MPH nation wide. The rest of the world thinks you’re fucking stupid.
Further, the majority of the world walks and drives on the right. Figure it out.
Finally the 2nd floor of a building is floor 2. Not floor 1. This is not even up for debate, nobody agrees with the UK on this absurdity.
This has been a public service announcement.
So why not implement signage?
Shared paths (pedestrians and bicycles) have clear directional markings here, which I expect would solve most of the problem.
normally Europeans keep to the right
This clearly demonstrates that, should the United Kingdom ever re-apply for membership in the European Union, not only will it have to adopt the Euro and the metric system, but also switch to right-hand traffic. 🙃
As someone originally from Hungary: as a kid I was taught I should walk on the left (if there is no pavement), so I could see the cars I’d be sharing the side of the road with. So technically it should all be reversed everywhere.
Also there is no consistent walking side tendency anywhere, and just walking to/through the shops you’d know that. Brits might do a queue but see if you can predict which side they’ll be walking on, and it’s no different elsewhere.
I’ve never heard of driving side ever applying to walking side. What happens in places like France or Sweden where trains run on the left and cars run on the right?
The road traffic rules dominate. Driving and walking is on the right. Trains might be on the left but that doesn’t influence walking at all. Trams are also on the right. And most metros.
Is it ever enforced?
It’s not an explicit law. But if the majority of people follow the rule implicitely it still works quite well.
Here in the Netherlands walking flows in long corridors also usually tend to sort themselves to right-hand walking. It’s more efficient than walking against the flow of traffic.
No none of it is a law, just implicit rules. The worst that could happen is someone annoyed saying “excuse me”
It’s very prominent in Japan. Unless a passageway is explicitly marked otherwise, everything and everybody in Japan is suppose to pass on the left. Even ships in water lanes and taxiing aircraft pass on the left.
Huh? In driving, the slow lane is left and passing is on the right. On escalators (except in parts of Kansai), it’s stand left and walk (pass) right. Even in subways and train stations, walking is generally left (though some stations swap this in some/all sections for whatever reason). There is signage about this, though people routinely ignore it.
Opposing traffic.
