The switch to right hand traffic in Czechoslovakia describes changes in the rules of the road in 1938/1939.
Before 1938, Czechoslovakia drove on the left side of the road. In about 1925, Czechoslovakia accepted the Paris convention and undertook to change to right hand traffic "within a reasonable time frame". In 1931, the government decreed to change over within 5 years, which did not happen. The main obstacles were financial cost and widespread opposition in rural areas. In November 1938, parliament finally decided to change to right hand traffic with effect from May 1, 1939.
(Austria had already been forced to switch after its 1938 annexation by Germany.)
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