Editing Transport in Sweden (section)

==Road==
[[File:Slussen 1963 2007.jpg|thumb|Above: Left-hand traffic in Slussen in 1963. Below: Right-hand traffic in Slussen in 2007.]]Sweden has right-hand traffic today, like all its neighbours.

Sweden had left-hand traffic (''Vänstertrafik'' in [[Swedish language|Swedish]]) from approximately 1736 and continued to do so until 1967. Despite this virtually all cars in Sweden were actually left-hand drive and the neighbouring [[Nordic countries]] already drove on the right, leading to mistakes by visitors. The Swedish voters rejected a change to driving on the right in a [[Referenda in Sweden|referendum]] held in 1955.

Nevertheless, in 1963 the [[Riksdag]] passed legislation ordering the switch to right-hand traffic. The changeover took place on a Sunday morning at 5am on September 3, 1967, which was known in Swedish as ''[[Dagen H]]'' (H-Day), the 'H' standing for ''Högertrafik'' or right-hand traffic.

Since Swedish cars were left-hand drive, experts had suggested that changing to driving on the right would reduce accidents, because drivers would have a better view of the road ahead. Indeed, fatal car-to-car and car-to-pedestrian accidents did drop sharply as a result. This was likely due to drivers initially being more careful and because of the initially very low speed limits, since accident rates soon returned to nearly the same as earlier.

Total roadways: 572,900&nbsp;km, as of 2009.

===Motorways===
[[List of motorways in Sweden|Motorway]]s run through Sweden, [[Denmark]] and over the [[Öresund Bridge]] to [[Stockholm]], [[Gothenburg]], [[Uppsala]] and [[Uddevalla]]. The system of motorways is still being extended. The longest continuous motorways are [[Värnamo]]–[[Gävle]] ([[European route E4|E4]]; 585&nbsp;km) and the Norwegian border–[[Vellinge]] ([[European route E6|E6]]; 482&nbsp;km; as the motorway between [[Trelleborg]] and [[Oslo]] in [[Norway]] has been completed in 2015).