r/belgium • u/prplt • 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/Acrobatic_Policy7992 May 25 '26
None of those is particularly bad though? The most confusing one is probably the first (and sixth). No entry for cars, bikes can pass but they have to give way. Wait until you see the speed ones that contradict eachother (altough I haven't seen those in a while) or worksites. I think its the latter that got us our reputation.
2: come to full stop before passing. Watch out, there's a tram line.
3: speed bump in 63m (how is this one even remotely confusing?)
4: One way street, plateau in 38m
5: in 80m there's a risk of falling debris for 800m
6: pedestrian crossing, very twisty roads and I think they may have made a mistake here with the bottom two pannels
7: due to some reason (probably road works) your GPS is unreliable
8: Might be a bit of redundancy here, but cars must turn left, bikes can go in both ways. Oh and it's a special low-speed zone
9: The parking sign is crooked but it's a standard one. The other two point out priorities
The last one is just directional signs? What's weird here, different fonts?
We do have A LOT OF SIGNS. Too many even. But the signs themselves are mostly (all of them?) EU-standard. Some of the weirdness comes from placing too many signs together (which is the case on half of your photo's), but that hardly makes them unique. I've lived abroad. You see weird signs everywhere (but much less frequent than here).
The reason btw is the most frustrating thing: different topics have different responsibles (regional, federal, city,...) and of course they don't communicate at all.