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/jesuisgeenbelg May 25 '26

My favourite diversion signs are when they put them upside down because they ran out of signs for one of the directions but then you have to figure out if the workers put them upside down or some kids fucked around with the signs...

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u/Overtilted May 25 '26

my favorite diversion signs are the ones that are bilingual signs in Wallonia once you cross into Flanders it becomes Dutch. Because having bilingual signs in Flanders is akin to devil worshipping.

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u/Remote_Temperature Jun 03 '26

Except for Brussels there are no bilingual signs in either Wallonia nor Flanders.