The primary priority rule on intersections in The Netherlands is that traffic coming from the left must give way to traffic coming from the right. Unlike in the rest of Europe, however, a general exception on this rule which obliges unmotorized traffic to give way to motorized traffic, is still in force. In 1985 a working group gathered data about the effects of priority signs in order to formulate uniform criteria for their application. Provisional recommendations were published in that year. Decision schemes were designed which some local authorities have been using successfully during the last five years. Renewal of the traffic regulations in The Netherlands in 1990 has called for republication of the 1985 recommendations, which now no longer need to be regarded as provisional.
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