Primary school

1. Traffic lights

2. Pedestrian lights:

• Green: watch out and cross
• Flashing green: do not start crossing anymore; if you are already crossing, walk across quickly
• Red: never cross

Many pedestrian lights work when you press the push button. Some lights make a sound: at a red light a ticking sound and at a green light a rattling sound. This way blind and visually impaired people can hear whether the light is on green or red.

B. Traffic signs

C. Markings painted on the road surface

1. Pre-sorting lanes Rules:

• You must drive in the lane or on the strip in which the arrow points in the direction you want to follow; as soon as you are driving next to a solid line, you may no longer leave the lane.

2. Dotted lines Two directions. You may cross over that line if necessary.

3. Solid lines With a solid line you may not cross over the line.

4. Rectangles Entry side (sometimes across the full width of the road, one-way traffic, and sometimes partially).

5. Crosswalks

• Cross at the crosswalk if it is nearby; wait with crossing until the traffic stops for you or has passed;
• Keep watching carefully when you cross.

6. Stop line You must stop before the stop line, even if there is no traffic on the other road.

7. Shark teeth You must let everyone coming from the left and from the right go first (= yield). Sometimes across the full width of the road, when you are leaving a one-way road.

8. Combination shark teeth/stop line You must stop and let everyone go first.

9. Speed bump In certain places speed bumps are sometimes placed for the safety of pedestrians. A speed bump forces a driver to reduce their speed.

Conclusion:

Signs placed along the road and markings painted on the road surface to make something clear to road users, we call the passive language of the road.

We can therefore say that land traffic can be regulated by:

1. Agreements — For example: we cycle and walk on the right; when changing direction we stick out our arm.
2. Traffic signs — See next chapter.
3. Markings on the road — For example: dotted lines, shark teeth.
4. Traffic lights — For example: when the light turns red, you must stop.
5. Traffic controllers — For example: police officers, crossing guards.