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The sign says "Bridge Open - Motor Off". A request for drivers not to pollute the air when a boat is entering or leaving the lock and the bridge is open for it. These signs are quite normal on the many lifting bridges in the Netherlands.
A now rare Fietsers Oversteken sign. These old-fashioned signs sometimes appear on relatively little used roads to tell cyclists to use the cycle path on the other side of the road. It's not a huge penalty as the bike paths are perfectly go ... [more]
The routes taken daily by the four different special cycle path gritting trucks which operate in Assen. They cover 207 km of cycle path each day, keeping the whole clear of icy patchs and safe to use through the winter. This information ... [more]
Another missive from the Assen local government printed in the paper. This is all about de-icing the roads and cycle paths. The title "Assen government in action against slipperiness" A few salient points. 340 km of road and 207 km ... [more]
Little signs that say "uitgezonderd" with a picture of a bike and a bromfiets (an especially gutless class of low power motorbike) mean that these vehicles are excepted from whatever regulation is otherwise enforced by the sign. There ar ... [more]
Two "Except Cyclists" signs in one photo. I've yet to find a one-way street here which doesn't except cyclists. See also #12343 which shows three more within a few metres of this location.
Post card from the local government advertising what is being done on newly upgraded rural cyclepaths - which are branded fietsroute+. The points in the green dots: o Clearly signposted o Easy and safe crossings o Minimum of 2.5 m w ... [more]
The entirely rural 30 km/h around the village of Deurze. This zone is about 1.5 km long on mostly empty rural roads with just a few houses. The other end of the 30 km/h zone shown in #12136 "Let op, rechts heeft voorrang" is to tell peop ... [more]
This sort of minor road in a village will have a 30 km/h speed limit in the Netherlands. In this case, 1.5 km of road past just a few houses has this speed limit. The other end of the zone is shown in #12268
Sign within "pedestrianized" area showing limits on delivery vehicles. In this street they are allowed: Monday to Thursday 7:00 - 13:00 and 17:30 - 20:00. Friday 7:00 - 13:00 Saturday 7:00 - 11:00 and 17:00 - 18:00. Normally ... [more]
When there isn't a cycle path, speed limits on the roads are low. The speed limit on this rural road is 50 km/h, or around 30 mph.
You see these posts around occasionally. It reads (English first, then Dutch): This is a climate wood. These trees are at this moment busy tieing up CO2. That is desperately needed, for CO2 discharge is an important cause of climate chan ... [more]
'No loading at any time' says the sign, just after the end of the cycle lane at this new bollard location.
The photo is just of a real time information sign. You have to play the video to see more... Riding along beside the guided bus route in Meerhoven. The bus path is on the left. Note that when roads cross the cycle path, drivers are expec ... [more]
No prohibition of right turns at this informally segregated, toucan crossing. (Only the approaches to the crossing are segregated between cyclists and pedestrians, not the crossing itself. However, in practice, segregation happens and w ... [more]
Old Hall Street, Learning Quarter, Wolverhampton. Our city's only contra-flow cycle route to date.
Top of Stafford Street, Wolverhampton looking towards city centre. Wolverhampton has the UK's first 20 MPH city centre - inside the ring road.
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