3.3 Place on the road §

Created: 2023-10-05 21:54

In your car your have a fixed place on the road, and other road users have their own place on the road as well.

What rules apply to the different types of road users

• Drivers of motor vehicles (ie. cars):
  • Keep the right as much as possible
  • Keep a safe distance from the sidewalk, the verge and from any cyclists or vehicles parked along the road.
• Moped care drivers (micro cars):
  • Follow the same rules as car drivers
  • Not allowed in highways
• Pedestrians:
  • Use the sidewalk or footpath, or, when not available, the cycle path or the cycle/moped path.
  • When none of those are available, pedestrians walk on the verge of the road or on the far left/right of the roadway.
• Cyclists and moped riders (snorfiets):
  • Use the mandatory cycle path or the cycle/moped path.
  • If the road has a bicycle lane, they use that.
  • Otherwise they drive as much on the right as possible.
  • Two cyclists might ride next to each other if nobody is endangered. Moped must never ride side by side.
  • Cyclists and electric-motor moped drivers might use the non-mandatory cycle path. Combustion-engine mopeds may use the path only with the engine off.
• Drivers of disabled vehicles:
  • Might choose between sidewalk, footpath, cycle path, cycle/moped path, or roadway.
  • Not allowed on highways.
• Moped riders (bromfiets):
  • Use the cycle/moped path or, if not available, ride on the roadway.
  • More than two wheels or with a trailer that is wider than 0.75m including load, should drive on the roadway.
  • Cars, trucks, and other vehicles cannot drive next to moped on the roadway.
• Riders (horse):
  • Use the bridle way, or, if not available, the verge of the roadway.
  • Always pass by horse riders carefully. Horses cand be startled by the sound of a car’s engine and react unpredictably.
• Trams:
  • Rails determine the place on the road for the tram.
  • The tram track is usually clear.
  • Sometimes’s, however, the tram rails run over the normal carriageway, intended for the rest of the traffic.
  • In that case you are allowed to drive your car on the rails, sort, stop, stand still, and park.
  • As long as you do not unnecessarily hinder or block (hindert / belemmert) the tram.

Exceptions to keeping the right:

• Pre-sorting to turn left.
• Want to park or stop on the left side of the road.
• Overtaking.
• Must follow traffic signs.
• Driving just before or on a roundabout.