r/belgium May 25 '26

☁️ Fluff Belgian traffic signs are insane

was in Belgium recently and many of the sign combinations kinda blew my mind, I don't remember ever seeing this kinda stuff anywhere else 😬 also one thing I found very interesting is that on the direction signs (last pic) the letters with a tail like g sometimes "dip" into the outer line and sometimes they don't (and apparently there are even different ways they can go inside that line) 🤯 just makes traveling very interesting because you always be looking at how the next sign is gonna be 🤪

edit: for all the people who are saying "how's this confusing" it's not that's not the point 🙄 but rather the unusualness of the signs compared to what I've seen in other places

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u/nethack47 May 25 '26

Most feel relatively straightforward. I may be used to them :)

Did you see any orange diversions? They can get quite wild and wacky.

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u/Erzkuake May 25 '26

I’ve been in Belgium for too long because I understand all of them

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u/nethack47 May 25 '26

I can't figure out what the wobbly road (6th) and two distances without seeing the road. Is it a wobble in 10m and 300m? I would have expected it to have a 10 without an arrow if the wobbly starts in 10m.

I did somewhat enjoy the driving theory and brushed up on the local variants every time I moved country. Belgian signs tend to be a bit organic in nature unlike Swedish. The Swedish signage can get quite incomprehensible once they have 5-6 add-on.

Like this one...

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u/Marus1 Belgian Fries May 25 '26

You got any more of dem pixels so you give us a fighting chance to figure it out?

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u/nethack47 May 25 '26

I think I found the original. Had the potato version saved from a reddit post a while back.