Driving on the wrong/right side of road

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Here’s a little summary of an ‘experiment’ I ran while on my first visit to London…

Hypothesis
Here in Canada, where cars are driven on the right side of the road, I’ve noticed that pedestrians on busy sidewalks also follow this rule. I figured that maybe in the UK, people would favour the left side of the sidewalks, arising as a force of habit from their own driving standards.
The Test
I just did a simple count of 100 pedestrians each at four different busy sidewalks in downtown London, checking which side of the sidewalk they favoured, and noting how a ‘split’ would occur if paths were on a collision course (Ok, not much methodology here , this isn’t for a research paper or anything like that --shouldave been a double-blind study, etc…, but who would finance this kind of whimsical stuff???)
Results
Turns out pedestrians there also favour the right side, just like in Canada (or the U.S. and most of the world, for that matter). Additional evidence: signs in subway corridors and stairways advise people to keep to the right!
Conclusion
People in the UK are driving on the wrong side of the road!:eek: :wink:

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Believe it or not, this has been discussed before.

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Thanks. I’ve now posted my comment to the appropriate thread. I then tried to delete my post above, but it seems I don’t have the rights to do so. Yikes! ( I must have misread the FAQ -I thought one could delete/edit one’s own posts)

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Deleting and editing was disabled to prevent posters changing or removing posts to make others look stupid (yeah, we’re a classy bunch here).

I wouldn’t worry too much about missing the previous thread, we’ve all done it once or twice.