Suriname and neighboring Guyana are the only two countries on the (in-land) American continent that drive on the left. In Guyana this practice is inherited from United Kingdom colonial authorities. The reason for the left hand drive in Suriname is explained by several sources. It is thought that this is because the first cars imported were from England, but this is yet undocumented. In addition, this view does not make statements on traffic before the automobile era. Another explanation is that the Netherlands, at the time of colonization of Suriname, used the left-hand side of the road for traffic,[22] or that Suriname was first colonized by the English.[23] Although the Netherlands converted to driving to the right at the end of the 18th century (Peter Kincaid, and [24]), Suriname did not. An interesting viewpoint on this is forwarded by Peter Kincaid, and further explored by Ian Watson,[25] in that territories such as Suriname, with no neighbors or no connecting roads to neighbour countries, had no external pressure to either change or to maintain the status quo on driving sides.
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