Safety tip for visiting the Netherlands: is the sidewalk more red than gray? You’re actually standing on a bike path. There’s usually a gray path parallel to it for walking. Bikes can come up very quickly and quietly.
If a road for cars is red all the way across, that means cars and bikes are expected to share it as equals. If you are driving a car, slow down on red pavement and pay extra attention for bikes.
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What's the difference between a road for cars that's red and one that's not? Should one expect a separate bike path right next to the latter (and thus ~no bikes on the latter)?
@robryk if it’s not red then your bike should probably not be on it yeah (there’s probably very rural, very low traffic roads that don’t follow this system, but in towns there will always be either a red road or a gray road and a red bike path)