The only road in London where you have to drive on the right

nateguchi

See also: The Magic Roundabout in Swindon. One of the only? roundabouts in the UK that goes anticlockwise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)

yzydserd

It’s nearby London’s last sewer powered gas lamp. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/F...

Oarch

I watched a Waymo try to take this on last night. It drove on the left.

1970-01-01

London will switch sides when America goes metric - i.e. never.

jemmyw

> There's only one spot in London where you'll have to drive like much of the rest of the world That makes it sound like Britain is the only place with left side traffic. 35% of the world population live in countries where they drive on the left side.

merek

I've come across a road like this in Singapore, although with a road barrier https://maps.app.goo.gl/bEEvRkgGQPhfM7198

garciansmith

There are some spots in the US where you drive on the left, albeit for a short distance and the road is divided. Still messes with my brain. E.g., here in the northern suburbs of Detroit (W. Big Beaver going under I-75): https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5620634,-83.1581674,18z

forinti

Sometimes, rarely, you find a bit asphalt in Brazil where you have to drive on the left and often it is signalled as "mão inglesa", which is something like "English flow". Recently I discussed with some friends the relative merits of LHT and RHT, and we came to the conclusion that LFT was better because you could drive and shoot with your right hand. So LHT is great for drive-by-shootings. Curiously, no alcohol was ingested during this conversation.

OJFord

Bit of a stretch... It's a dead-end private road, also sometimes called a driveway, where the owner has their own rules for how it should be used.

KaiserPro

So near the savoy is a semi circle road https://www.google.com/maps/search/bush+house/@51.5128306,-0... which feels like a round about and and you are forced to enter it from the wrong way. In fact driving in central london is a unique skill that I unwittingly mastered as I learnt to drive in zone one. This means that I can out manoeuvrer a pissed off white van man in a hurry. Its like chess but more angry and slightly slower.

petercooper

Not a “road” as such, but it’s also quite common in multi storey car parks as well where a ramp is shared by traffic going both up and down to stop unnecessary crossovers at each level.

qingcharles

Here's the road in street view: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7KQLmedYzCjdg5FA7

dreamcompiler

There's also a part of the US where one must drive on the left: The US Virgin Islands. Driving there is more difficult than "normal" left-side driving (such as in the UK or Japan) because the cars in the USVI are standard US cars with the steering wheel on the left.