Originally Posted by
obrentharris
We were taught the same thing right here in the New Ninety States when I was a kid. The reasoning was that you could see the cars coming and avoid them.
Really? Where was that?
At the Virginia gradeschool I attended from grade three onward we had no buses, everyone walked or rode bikes to school. We were taught walk on the left because you can see oncoming traffic, ride bikes on the right because the bike is a vehicle. The system worked well.