Turning at an intersection with light signaling, i.e. a traffic light, will no longer be prohibited. Currently, drivers can only turn at traffic lights if the traffic sign allows them to do so. From September, it will be the other way around – turning will be automatically allowed if the traffic sign does not prohibit it. This follows from the amendment to the Road Traffic Act, which has already been approved by the National Council of the Slovak Republic. Slovak President Peter Pellegrini still has it on his table.
“This is an internationally non-standard rule, while this currently valid ban subsequently also required the creation of the possibility to allow turning at a specific intersection (also through non-standard traffic signs),” the Ministry of the Interior, which came up with the change, stated in the material. It pointed out that a general permission to rotate is a simpler, more logical and understandable alternative.
