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>Keep to the right, Do you then switch to the left when walking in the UK? :)
by vlod 6y ago
>Keep to the right,
Do you then switch to the left when walking in the UK? :)
- netsharc 6y agoIMO (in my observation) natives actually instinctively do pick the side of the pavement to walk on as if they were cars on the road... It's fun then when you have Chinese or American tourists in Japan (Japan is right hand drive)...
- Someone 6y agoThat makes sense, as it makes the pedestrians closest to the road face incoming traffic. That makes temporarily stepping onto the road when pedestrian traffic gets too busy for the available width of the sidewalk a lot safer. (Some, possibly many, countries use the same logic for setting rules for pedestrians walking on the side of a road without sidewalks) And you likely know it, but in Japan cars drive on the left.