Politics In Samoa

Samoa Now Drives On The Left [ 8 September 2009 ]
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The Pacific island nation of Samoa has become the first country in decades to change driving sides. Not since Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone changed sides in the 1970s have any country made the switch. And it is likely the first time any country is switching from the right to the left - every other change has been the other way around. Apart from electrical sockets and voltages, the side on which people drive is one of the basic things the world is divided over........  About 70 per cent of the world population drives on the right-hand side of the road - just like drivers in Pompeii and other ancient cities did.

The countries committed to the left are mainly Britain and its various former colonies and Japan......... The current change in Samoa is ostensibly to help people get the benefit of cheap, used vehicles from richer neighbours Australia and New Zealand that drive on the left.
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This is good news in its way. People can change things for the better. Getting Japanese exports makes sense. Indonesia is one of the world's left driving countries, just like Thailand, Cyprus, Japan and presumably India, Pakistan, Bangladesh.

 

There were major riots there because of the Chinese.