From my knowledge, the UK helped not only its former colonies develop their driving infrastructure, but also countries like Indonesia and Japan, thus them also driving on the left side of the road. Did the US have a bigger influence on Canadian road development than Britain? And if so, why?
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Indonesia and Japan are island nations, which means they don’t have to make their roads link up with their neighbours. (Well, Indonesia has land borders with Papua New Guinea and Malaysia but I think that’s it, and they aren’t very big borders.)
Canada shares a *huge* land border with the US, with lots of car and truck traffic crossing every day. Setting up the infrastructure for roads so that they switch sides at every border crossing, is complicated and expensive. And even if all that infrastructure were implemented well, (which – being real – it probably wouldn’t be) it would still be confusing to many drivers.
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