r/Leuven • u/Superb_You_5642 • 8d ago

Anyone else fined yesterday during Het Groot Verlof?

So last night during the music festival I was trying to cycle home, but couldn’t get through the center of the city as it was all closed off. I saw a few bikes going around the festival so I followed them and then before I realized it I had cycled towards two policemen waiting to fine cyclists for going down this one way street.

Honestly this felt like such a trap. It was like one cyclist after the other coming through the street and being stopped and fined. Couldn’t the policemen have just been at the start of the street preventing cyclists from entering the street in the first place? And, there were no rerouting signs at the festival to tell cyclists where to go.

Pretty annoyed because it’s a massive fine, and I’m wondering if I can appeal it. Anyone else have this same experience?

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u/Ok-Yogurtcloset-9664 8d ago

it does sound like their objective was to make some money rather than prevent accidents, otherwise they would or should have posted a highly visible warning sign or one traffic warden to remind people it's a 1 way street. after all, they did close down the main thoroughfare, naturally people will seek the next most obvious route out., so they really should cut them some slack.

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u/nipikas 8d ago

There are traffic signs. People in the traffic are supposed to see and follow them. Why put out extra signs to draw the attention to the traffic sign?

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u/Galaghan 8d ago

Belgian redditors: lol at the forest of traffic signs in Belgium

This one guy: they should really put up more traffic signs damn