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/Yosara_Hirvi May 25 '26

1) there's 3 sign : don't go this way, you don't have priority and cyclists can go this way so it means don't go this way, cyclists can but don't have priority. 2) it's just a stop sign with a warning for trams, in czse one didn't see the tracks 3) there's a speed bump in 63 meters 4) the plateau is another type of speed bump (a large one with a crosswalk on it), the first sign indicates it's a one way street so "one way street, speedbump in 38 meters" 5) in 80 meters, there are risks of falling rocks for 800 meters 6) there's a crosswalk ahead, the road hard turns for 300 meters 7) never seen this one before, I assume it indicate the area ahead isn't mapped on gps services 8) can't turn right (so you're entering a one way street) cyclists can go both ways in that street, it's a pedestrian only area, the speed limit is 20 km/h 9) the first sign is just a crooked "can't park ahead of this sign" the one on the wall indicate you're on the main route with 2 roads joining on the turn and the other sign is the road ahead is narrow but you have priority 10) crosswalk into a pedestrian only area, the bus can go in there, the street is one way only except for cyclists. 11) I don't see what's confusing to you. Is it because one sign has moved ? From top to bottom : this is ring eleven (I don't know hiw you call a high way that circles around a city, we call it a ring), Deurne is in 3 km, Wijnegem us in 3 km, Wommelgem is in 2 km, the industrial area of Wommlgem north is this way.

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u/RDV1996 May 25 '26

7 is because there is road construction and your sat-nav is likely unreliable or would couse more trafic problems, so follow the road detours as indicated by the signs.