Road narrowings

Sometimes the road is narrowed by placing bollards on the carriageway. There may be traffic signs at these road narrowings, regulating who may drive first through the road narrowing. Alternatively, there may be no signs regulating who may drive through the road narrowing first.
The latter possibility is increasingly common. Why do you think this happens? If traffic signs are placed at a road narrowing and the sign on your side says that you may go through the road narrowing first, what happens in practice? You know the situation, and you know you can go first, and you drive through without slowing down. Road barriers are usually placed as a speed reduction measure. If the speed does not go down, the road narrowing as a speed reduction measure does not make much sense. What is happening more and more often now is that road barriers are being installed without regulating who can drive through them first. You then have to approach the road narrowing quietly because you cannot see from afar whether someone is coming from the other side and if so whether they will let you pass.

In places where you do not expect oncoming traffic, for example on an autoweg, your attention may be drawn to this by sign J29 (the triangular sign). If you want to overtake, take into account the oncoming traffic.
Signs F5 (the round sign) and F6 (the blue square sign) may be placed near obstacles, such as roadworks, bridges or level crossings.
If sign F5 is on your side of the obstacle, you must give way to all other traffic from the other side. Note that this also applies if pedestrians are coming from the opposite direction.
If sign F6 is on your side of the obstacle, traffic from the other side must give way to you. This means you can proceed. Only if pedestrians are coming from the other side should you give way to them.

Tip: Don’t just look at the color of the arrows shown on signs F5 and F6. Now what if it has been snowing and you can’t see the colors of the arrows? Quite simply, you look at the shape of the sign. Simply put: “If you see the round sign you have to wait, if you see the square sign you can drive on, unless there are pedestrians coming from the other direction”.
During the theory exam at the CBR, questions regularly occur where the signs are snow-covered.