On 2013\07\30 20:54, Recliner wrote:
Sampo Smolander wrote:
d wrote:
Why is it that you can have everyone on an escalator standing on the right
[...]
Not a Brit, so I have been wondering: How come you drive cars on the
left side, but then on the sidewalk you (usually) take the right side,
and also the right side on escalators?
Why not consistently left side everywhere?
Boats pass on the right in Britain, as elsewhere. On pavements (sidewalks)
there seems to be no consistent pattern in Britain. Perhaps escalators,
which came here from the US, follow American precedent?
Much of the London Underground was controlled by American(s) in its
early days, and LU still follows certain practices which were copied
from America in that era, such as calling carriages "cars".