Meaning of rule of the road | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The regulation requiring all traffic (travelling on a road or otherwise) to keep either to the left or the right.
   uncountable
2. A regulation concerning safe handling of vessels on seaways.
   uncountable

Examples

“The general rule of the road for steamers is precisely the same as the general rule of the pavement for foot passengers in London […]”

“Hence in Japan the influential samurai warriors habitually kept to the left while walking or riding. Their example influenced other travellers and resulted in the modern rule of the road in Japan: keep left.”

“The Liverpool and Manchester railway, the first steam-operated passenger railway, which opened in 1830, adopted the British rule of the road, with trains passing each other on the left.”

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