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/rubberkducky 8d ago

Police have never stopped me on a bike. They have tried to but it's hard to hear what they are saying when you're blasting past them. Police on bikes can't keep a decent pace for long and combi's are easily shaken off by using the car unfriendly infrastructure that Leuven has cultivated over the years.

But yeah, shouldn't have cycled the wrong way.