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Word: kungsgatan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1967-1967
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Everyone in Stockholm seemed to have set his alarm clock to sound off be fore dawn. By 4 a.m., cars, motor scooters and flower-decked taxis that had been hired months before streamed downtown to the Kungsgatan, the city's main street. There they waited through a solemn radio countdown. At the stroke of five, loudspeakers blared: "Now is the time to change over." In a brief but monumental traffic jam, Sweden switched to the right side of the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden: Switch to the Right | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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