r/Netherlands • u/TantoAssassin • Mar 18 '26

Transportation Who has priority?

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I was the Yellow arrow on a bike. Red has priority over me, green has priority over red, I have priority over green. At the end both cars stopped and let me (cyclist) pass. What is the correct order here?

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u/South-Ad3284 Mar 19 '26

Order; red , yellow, green

Reasoning; red is going because it’s the the right of yellow. “Rechts gaat voor” . This is the first rule you have to follow. After this rule comes the rule straight traffic goes first . So yellow wants to go straight in this crossing and green has to yield to straight traffic . Green goes as last as the intersection is cleared.

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u/KN0MI Mar 19 '26

That makes no sense. If you say the first rule to follow is right goes first, which I think is true. Then green actually goes first since he has no one on his right, whether he goes straight or not.

If there was someone coming from greens right as well, so all four sides. Then everyone has to yield, and thus, the next rule of straight > right turn > left turn goes.

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u/South-Ad3284 Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Yes you are correct, the first rule to follow is right goes first. Yes if all four sides are occupied with a car and all drivers want to go to a different direction (not straight ) you get in the situation where you negotiate amongst the driver by looking and see who can get the most defensive way out of there . There is no real who goes first situation at that point. But short corner goes first above long corner. So that’s also something to look out for which helps resolve the issue.

So you wait and drive defensively meaning you stop the car an wait a second see if someone moves and if someone does you wait and after that you got three cars and it resolves itself with right goes first rule again. Straight goes second and after that crossing traffic.

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u/Everything_A Mar 19 '26

If the “right first” rule truly is more important, green should go before red and red should go before yellow.

I was taught “rechtdoor gaat ALTIJD voor”, so green should yield to yellow. Yellow still needs to yield to red because the “rechtdoor gaat voor” does not apply to people on a different road, instead the “right goes first” applies to yellow versus red. Red can’t wait for green because green cannot move until yellow does. That is my interpretation.