Quebec bans right hand drive

[cmperry4]

Originally Posted by Bruce Parker

...or better yet the legislation. It seems 65 year old CMP's are exempt.

That's what I get from reading the story - it seems like an exception could be made for CMP's/antique vehicles - but with Quebec bureaucracy, who knows?

Yes, postal vans are RHD - and I know a letter carrier who had an accident in one because of a blind spot for oncoming traffic from the left when he pulled out from an angled side street. Oh well.

I recently met a guy here in Manitoba who is driving a RHD Toyotal Hilux SUV he got from Japan, doesn't even have a warning placard on the back; I haven't heard of the Dippers planning a crackdown here, but it is the sort of thing they would do.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

The law in Ontario is that RH drive vehicles must have a "Caution Right Hand Drive" sign on the back. The RH drive postal delivery vans may be exempt because Canada Post is a federally chartered corporation, but I doubt it because all their equipment should be legal for the jurisdiction they operate it in. The other glaring violation of the law is all the ex-British double-decker buses that drive tourists around Niagara Falls. They are well and truly RH drive and have no signs on the back.

I think that running a CMP without signage on the back (in Ontario) would not get you in much trouble unless there was an accident. Then, despite the accident having nothing to do with which side the steering wheel was on or the existence of a sign, the insurance company would withhold coverage.

[chrisgrove]

Watching the reactions of bored kids looking out of the back window of Dad's car was interesting when driving RHD Landrovers out of Suffield back in the 70s when we brits first went there. Later they banned driving them on the roads.
Chris