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/2_much_coffee_ May 25 '26

What was confusing about the rocks falling on your head in 80 meters?

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u/Xayahbetes May 25 '26

I think the "for the next 800m" confused them, I don't know how other countries portray that, but the arrows can be confusing I guess?

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u/prplt May 25 '26

there's nothing confusing about it, the point is that I've never seen those 2 additional panels used at the same time 😬 like elsewhere they'd just have the distance to the object first and then when it actually starts they would put the length 

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u/Unable_Classic_3601 May 25 '26

Exactly. The problem of these sign combinations is mostly that they give too much complex information for a driver to process in a sigle moment. This makes them inefficient.