By "small" I didn't mean in physical size but quantity of traffic and
density of signs. The UK has nearly twice the population of Canada.

And Sweden changed from driving on the left to right (was it 30 years ago?).
Not so difficult. Physically big country but very small population. And a
lot of Swedes had LHD cars anyway.

Plus it made some sense, given the long land borders with LHD countries.

The only country with which the UK has a 'proper' land border is Eire, and
it drives on the left, of course.

DAS

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> "Dori A Schmetterling" > wrote:
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>> Changing distances to km could be hugely expensive as all the road signs
>> would have to be changed. The Irish did it, but it's a much smaller
>> country
>> with, I think, proportionally less traffic than the UK. Needless to say,
>> for quite a while signs in miles and km were up at the same time.
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> "Not small" Canada changed from miles to KM in 1981.
> Perhaps the UK is waiting the change to KM for when they start driving
> on the right side. <
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>> Interestingly, the use of litres per 100 km is not used here.
>> Occasionally
>> one hears of miles per litre (now that IS mixed) but I think that (or
>> km/l)
>> makes more practical sense than the very common l/100 km.
> L/100 KM is the standard, although I feel KM/L would make more sense.