Talk:Vienna Convention on Road Traffic

message: The International Driving Permit section could use some cleaning up, and it is linking to another article. If you want that link, then I would think it shouldn't be a section here at all but its own seperate article. I don't know where you sourced it from either, since it looks copy and paste. Toofishes 22:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Prologue

message: Contracting parties list is compiled basing on wrong document - the document is about participants of Geneva Convention, not Vienna's one.
--Realaaa (talk) 05:25, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Contracting Parties

message: Why is it listed together with Aden Colony? 202.189.98.140 (talk) 10:31, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: British Guyana

message: No source given. I couldn't find any official source which stated Thailand is abiding to this convention.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.122.29.72 (talk) 15:36, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thailand is a signatory.  This is clearly stated in the source.  This is unfortunately only one of many errors in the map.  At a quick glance, every country which the map claims is “abiding [...] as a non-state party” is a full participant (though possibly with reservations), while at least two territories which are marked as participants (Svalbard and Jan Mayen) are not.  DES (talk) 11:15, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Abiding by treaty as a non-state-party

message: The link under "Full Text" (immediately below the flags) to the full source on Wikisource is broken & their search tool doesn't find it instantly.
I am using the mobile version of Wikipedia. Alanthehat (talk) 08:49, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken link 

message: According to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, a country is only allowed to use one traffic direction, which was the reason that Okinawa (which was an American territory and used right-hand traffic after the end of World War II) switched (back) to left-hand traffic, which is used in Japan, in 1978, six years after being transferred back to Japan in 1972.
A problem here is that the U.K. and Ireland use left-hand traffic, while the whole Mainland Europe use right-hand traffic (since Sweden's switch to RHT on 3 September 1967). If the whole of Europe would become one super-nation "the United States of Europe" divided into states, just like the United States of America, the super-nation "U.S.E." would most likely have two different traffic conventions, right-hand traffic on Mainland Europe and left-hand traffic on the British Isles, as it is technically and economically impossible to reconstruct all roads on the British Isles to adapt them for right-hand traffic, although it seemed to be possible in Sweden until the Swedish switch to RHT in 1967, but I doubt if it would be possible in such a built-up nation as Britain/Ireland, with a large network of motorways built for left-hand traffic and with vehicles mostly with a driver's seat to the right in the driving-direction (and thus adapted for left-hand traffic); Sweden was probably not a such built-up nation before September 1967. 212.100.101.104 (talk) 21:53, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only one traffic direction