It seems that Shanghai had left-hand traffic before the World War II end. Why did Shanghai use left-hand traffic, while the rest of China (except Japanese-occupied Manchukuo) used right-hand traffic? It seems that Beijing had left-hand traffic until 1945 too.
@jra5
11 ай бұрын
All the foreign powers made of the municipal government were driving on the left back then. That included Britain, US, even Japan who later occupied part of the international settlement in the war time. Yes, even US was driving on the left at the time.
@monicahoo8514
10 ай бұрын
The central part of Shanghai was a British colony back then.
@bjornhebergman8785
10 ай бұрын
@@monicahoo8514 it seems that Canton was a British colony too, or otherwise a British-influenced area. It seems that Beijing also had left-hand traffic in the 1930s-early 1940s, perhaps because of Japanese influence during the Japanese invasion. However, China except Beijing, Manchukuo, Shanghai and Canton seems to have used right-hand traffic already before World War II.
@bjornhebergman8785
10 ай бұрын
@@jra5 Beijing seems to have been driving on the left during Japanese occupation. Or was Beijing driving on the left already in the 1920s?
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