The Belgian Government has finalised plans to implement an entirely new highway code that no longer treats motorists as the ‘default standard’, the Brussels Times reports. The new guidelines are a total rewrite of the existing highway code, which was written about 50 years ago and has seen over 100 amendments.
To highlight the changed priority in the new guidelines, they have been renamed. Instead of the ‘Highway Code’, it is now called the ‘Public Road Code’, which Federal Minister of Mobility Georges Gilkinet says, “reflects a paradigm shift: the motorist is no longer the default standard.”
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