When someone bikes on the bikepath to the right and someone drives on the road to turn right, and thus crossing the path of the cyclist, who should yield? The car driver crossing the path, or the bicyclist passing the crossing?
In Sweden, the bikepath ends at each crossing(almost always), so it is the bicyclist that should yield. But I have understood it as in Belgium the driver should yield. What is true? (On this specific crossing, about half of the driver doesn’t yield).
[https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8468821,4.338438,3a,75y,343.46h,91.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxwIliRidkMeK0xNNj8gX1A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8468821,4.338438,3a,75y,343.46h,91.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxwIliRidkMeK0xNNj8gX1A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
by donvliet
3 comments
The driver is “executing a manoeuvre” and needs to yield.
That cycle path is drawn on top of the road. It has priority over everything. (“Continuous cycle path”)
If instead of the dashed lines, it were a dotted line, red paint, or just nothing, then they’d have to yield.
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Ideally they’d add shark teeth to limit confusion, but it looks like these would have needed to be repainted a decade ago. I see them barely at some crossings.
Same logic as for [the roundabout post last week](https://old.reddit.com/r/belgium/comments/16pvr8v/hebben_fietsers_op_het_fietspad_naast_het_rond/), in particular [this reply chain](https://old.reddit.com/r/belgium/comments/16pvr8v/hebben_fietsers_op_het_fietspad_naast_het_rond/k1tg62m/).
In short:
– If the lines around the bike path are long rectangular strokes (as is the case in the Google Maps link you posted), then the bike path is a bike path and hence the bikes have priority: they are simply driving ahead, while the car is making a manoeuvre to cross their bike path.
– If instead the lines around the bike crossing are a bunch of thick squares, then the bike crossing is a bike crossing and hence the bikes should yield: they are crossing a street, while the car is simply driving ahead (after having just completed a turning manoeuvre, but that does not matter).