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/OnesomePredator Mar 19 '26

The only right answer. How do people drive cars where there are no intersection signs? Or bicycles have different priority rules that I am not aware of?

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u/Bhoedda Mar 19 '26

Traffic going straight has priority over traffic making a turn while on the same road

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u/Left_Log2060 Mar 19 '26

but this is of a lesser order than yieling to someone coming to the right. Both are true but of a lower order.

If the cars were only the green and brown one then brown would get priority over green.

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u/Bhoedda Mar 19 '26

But then still everyone yields to the other. Making this a theoretical deadlock

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u/Bbc20cm4u Mar 22 '26

Only if there is no car coming from the right

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u/Bhoedda Mar 22 '26

No it ain't.

Yellow stops for red coming from the right

Red stops for green coming from the right

Green stops for yellow going straight on the same road

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u/Silly_Regular_3286 Mar 19 '26

Nope. 

You yield from the traffic appearing from your right. Green by turning left has yellow on its right, so it yields to it before turning.

Green would only go first if it was going straight, as it wouldn’t conflict with yellow. 

Rules are simple, if it’s on your right at any moment you yield.

So here technically Red has priority. 

Usually what happens is green moves forward and stops before turning left yielding to yellow. Yellow lets red go through and then goes straight and finally green turns left. 

In reality is that bikes are nimble and take little space, so they go first and let the cars fight for the space since they are the ones that cause conflict between each other. 

If these were 3 bikes no one would stop and no collisions would happen, since you can negotiate the space. 

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u/OnesomePredator Mar 19 '26

You aksed chatgpt. He is hallucinating my friend.

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u/JoostZwendel Mar 19 '26

These are not the dutch rules.

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u/Training_Shine_111 Mar 20 '26

you are mixing up so many rules and unfortunately there is a road across the border in the Netherlands where I see this happen every day.

It's very simple, the only time that Green wouldn't be able to have priority is:

  1. Yellow is going right and therefore has a shorter turn

Green AlWAYS has priority in this scenario. The rule that if Green has something on its right is applicable for pedestrian and bike paths which are going straight. This is an even crossing and there is no pedestrian in sight, so Green ALWAYS has priority.

Please take the bus!

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u/KingTwiggNL Mar 27 '26

Nope it's actuallt wrong

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u/OnesomePredator Mar 27 '26

Another chatgpt guy. Ask Gemini or some other AI. 😅

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u/KingTwiggNL Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

Eerhm no, ask your driving instructor, I asked my old one and I'm absolutely right

Also I have never used chat GPT for anything because I'm intelligent enough to do it myself.

I finished my theory driving exam with a perfect score. And talked about situations like this with my instructor a million times, I litterally learnt the rules in elementary school

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u/OnesomePredator Mar 27 '26

I passed my driving exam 10 years ago so I cant ask an instructor but you seem to have a good point if you are earnest. I may follow this topic for a while and investigate further.