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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Geoffrey Lean

FOUND: Beekeepers and communists how environmentalists started a global conversation - You Need To See This

People rally outside the UN conference on the human environment (UNCHE) in Stockholm in June 1972.
People rally outside the UN conference on the human environment (UNCHE) in Stockholm in June 1972. Photograph: Yutaka Nagata/UN Photo

It all began with Högertrafikomläggningen, 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 Malmö all traffic stopped for most of the weekend while intersections were reconfigured.

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