Shapes and colours
- Round with a red border: a prohibition or restriction.
- Round and blue: a command (something you must do), such as a mandatory cycle path.
- Triangle pointing up with a red border: a warning for danger ahead.
- Triangle pointing down: give way.
- Square or rectangular and blue: information, such as a parking place or a one-way street.
Important prohibition signs
- Red border, plain white centre: closed to all vehicles in both directions.
- Red with a white horizontal bar: no entry from this side.
- Blue with a red border and one red diagonal line: no parking.
- Blue with a red border and a red cross: no stopping.
Information and command signs
- Blue square with a white P: parking place.
- Round blue sign with a white bicycle: mandatory cycle path — cars may not use it.
- Blue sign with a house, a car and people: residential zone (erf). Walking pace, parking only in marked spaces.
- Blue sign with a motorway symbol: start of the motorway (autosnelweg).
Road markings
- Shark teeth (white triangles) pointing towards you: give way.
- Continuous white line: do not cross. Broken white line: you may cross it when safe.
- Continuous yellow line along the kerb: no stopping.
- Broken yellow line along the kerb: no parking.
Electronic signs above the motorway
- A red cross: the lane is closed. Change lanes in time.
- A number in a red circle: binding maximum speed for that lane.