Beekeepers and communists: how environmentalists started a global conversation
by Geoffrey Lean from Environment | The Guardian on (#5ZQZE)
The world's longest serving environment correspondent explains the origins of a slow and continuing journey
It all began with Hogertrafikomlaggningen, Swedish for the right-hand traffic reorganisation".
On 3 September 1967, Sweden switched from driving on the left to driving on the right. The change mainly took place at night, but in Stockholm and Malmo all traffic stopped for most of the weekend while intersections were reconfigured.
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