Rumors of Lane Changes in the UK

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:

> Geoff:

> With regard to Sweden, they changed the rule of the road in 1967 
> (which was part of the cause of the above thinking by the UK 
> government).
> 
> IIRC, it was called H-Dag - the H being the initial letter of "right" 
> in Swedish? It was not as simple a you suggest. Again, IIRC, all 
> traffic stopped on the first day and from the second day only 
> public transport and official traffic was allowed with the public 
> being let loose again on the third day.

Geoff:
Answering myself, I checked out a Swedish dictionary and found that 
the 'H' stood for Höger. 

After 41 years, I think my memory is doing quite well.