which side of the road?

[informashun]

we drive on the left which comes from historic reasons of cavalrymen and their swords but my question is why do mainland europe drive on the right?

[dzug]

Loads of info here:

http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/driving %20on%20the%20left.htm#history

[ianess]

I believe it was all changed because an awkward little Frenchman name of Napoleon wanted things done his way and not the "British" or "English" way.

[heathfield]

Interestingly, when the UK thought about a change-over to driving on the right, some motorway slip-roads were built with this in mind. They're still as they were, and you'll know them because the curves tighten up in the wrong place.

[informashun]

thanx dzug,
that web site you posted was amazing and a bril read.