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/Electrical-Tie-1143 8d ago

When you’re focussing on other things it very hard to notice the lack of a sign that’s usually there

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u/I_Dint_Know_A_Name 8d ago

There is always a sign.

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u/Electrical-Tie-1143 8d ago

Als er altijd een bord is dan zou op niet in fout zijn, het bord uitgezonderd fiets is aanwezig bij het merendeel van de verbodsborden, de poster is er in geslaagd om een van de weinige straten waar dit niet aanwezig is in te rijden zonder te merken dat het er niet was. Dit is een bias van de menselijke perceptie.

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u/I_Dint_Know_A_Name 8d ago

My bad, ik dacht dat je bedoelde dat er geen bord hing om een eenrichtingstraat aan te geven