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In St. Croix, VI working. Arrived May 11th. and will be leaving this coming Saturday. Not sure why anyone would want to be here. Too hot and humid for this guy. Can’t figure out why all the vehicles are one the wrong side of the road.


10 posted on 05/19/2019 4:53:59 AM PDT by animal172 (Call me simply deplorable.)
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Can’t figure out why all the vehicles are one the wrong side of the road.

I had to look that up!

Life in the Left Lane. Here on St. Croix we do, in fact, drive on the left. Many historians believe that driving on the left was a custom carried over from the days of Danish rule, and when the U.S. Virgin Islands became a U.S. territory no one ever bothered to change it.

17 posted on 05/19/2019 5:22:25 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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"all the vehicles are one the wrong side of the road"

The biggest problem with that, is in the Caribbean, the closest automobile supplier is the US, where all the cars are left hand steering. This means that when you try to pass someone, you have to get all the way out into the opposite lane before you can see if anyone is coming at you. In Nassau, at least, the coming drivers (mostly) are quite accommodating, and will pull to the side, and make a three lane road out of a two lane highway. It's when that doesn't happen that you can be in deep trouble.

30 posted on 05/19/2019 5:58:27 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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