OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 (Road Traffic Code)
Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 (Road Traffic Code Regulation)
(4) When a traffic light with three colors has an additional intermittent green light, mounted at the same level as the normal green light of the traffic light, in the form of a green arrow on a black background, with the tip to the right, its lighting means the permission for vehicles to continue their way in the direction indicated by the arrow, regardless of the color of the electric traffic light, with the condition of giving priority to vehicles and pedestrians who have the right of way.
(1) The light signals are white or differently colored lights, emitted successively, continuously or intermittently, by one or more lighting units that make up a traffic light.
(2) According to the number of lighting units, the traffic lights are:
a) with one lighting unit, with intermittent warning light;
b) with two lighting units, for pedestrians and drivers of bicycles or electric scooters; (Letter b) of Paragraph (2) was modified and updated on www.scoalarutiera.ro on 06-10-2021)
c) with three lighting units, for vehicles;
d) with four or more lighting units, for trams.
(3) The traffic lights are mounted on the vertical axis of the pole or on a console, on a portal or suspended on cables, the succession of the colors of the lenses, from top to bottom, being the following:
a) at the traffic light with three colors the order of the signals is: red, yellow, green;
b) at the traffic light with two colors the order of the signals is: red, green;
c) at the traffic light for trams three are placed horizontally at the upper part and one at the lower part, all with white light.
(1) The traffic lights that emit light signals for directing the traffic in the intersections are installed obligatorily before the intersection, so that they are visible from a distance of at least 50 m. These can be repeated in the middle, above or on the other side of the intersection.
(2) The meaning of the light signals for directing the traffic of vehicles is valid on the entire width of the carriageway open to the traffic of the drivers they are addressed to. On the roads with two or more lanes in each direction, for different directions, delimited by longitudinal markings, the traffic lights can be installed above one or some of the lanes, in which case the meaning of the light signals is limited to the lane or the lanes thus signalled.
On the red or green lamps of the traffic lights black arrows can be applied which indicate the directions of movement corresponding to these. In this case the prohibition or the permission of passing imposed by the light signal is limited to the direction or directions indicated by these arrows. The same meaning have also the arrows applied on the additional panels that accompany, at the lower part, the traffic lights. The arrow for straight ahead has the tip upwards.
(1) The traffic lights for trams have the shape of a box with four lighting units with white light, of which three are positioned horizontally and one under the one in the middle, accompanied by panels with additional signs.
(2) The free passing signal for trams is given by the light combination of the lower lamp with one of the three lamps situated at the upper part for indicating the direction.
(3) The signal prohibiting the passage of the tram is given by the simultaneous lighting of the three lights from the upper part of the box.
(1) The green light signal allows passing.
(2) When the traffic light is accompanied by one or more lamps that emit intermittent green light in the form of one or more arrows on a black background to the right, these allow passing only in the indicated direction, whatever the signal in operation of the traffic light at that moment.
(1) The red light signal prohibits passing.
(2) At the red light signal the vehicle must be stopped before the stopping marking or, as the case may be, for the pedestrian crossing, and in the absence of this, at the traffic light. If the traffic light is installed above or on the other side of the intersection, in the absence of the stopping marking or for the pedestrian crossing, the vehicle must be stopped before the edge of the carriageway of the road that is going to be intersected.
(3) When the red light signal operates simultaneously with the yellow one, this announces the appearance of the green light signal.
(1) When the yellow light signal appears after the green light signal, the driver of the vehicle who approaches the intersection must not pass the places provided at art. 52 paragraph (2), except the situation in which, at the appearance of the signal, he is so close to those places that could not stop the vehicle safely.
(2) The intermittent yellow light signal allows passing, the driver of the vehicle being obliged to move with reduced speed, to respect the meaning of the road signalling and of the traffic rules applicable in that place.
In the intersections the directing of the tram traffic can be realized also by traffic lights having light signals with white color, correlated with the light signals for directing the traffic of the other vehicles.
(1) The light signal intended for directing the traffic of bicycles has in its field the image of a bicycle with red color, respectively green on a black background. The same destination has also the light signal of a traffic light accompanied by an additional panel on which a bicycle is shown. (Article 55 was modified and updated on www.scoalarutiera.ro on 06-10-2021)
(2) The light signals provided at paragraph (1) direct also the traffic of electric scooters on the public roads. (Article 55 was modified and updated on www.scoalarutiera.ro on 06-10-2021)
(1) When above the traffic lanes are installed devices that emit red and green signals, these are intended for signalling the lanes with reversible traffic. The red signal, having the shape of two crossed bars, prohibits the access of vehicles on the lane above which it is found, and the green signal, in the form of an arrow with the tip downwards, allows the entering of vehicles and the traffic on that lane.
(2) The intermediate light signal which has the shape of one or more arrows with yellow or white color with the tip oriented to the right or left downwards announces the change of the green signal, in the case of the lanes with reversible traffic, or the fact that the lane above which it is found is about to be closed to the traffic of the drivers they are addressed to, these being obliged to move on the lane or lanes indicated by the arrows.
The driver of the vehicle who enters an intersection at the green color of the traffic light is obliged to respect also the meaning of the signs installed inside it.
(1) The light signals for pedestrians are green and red. These operate correlated with the signals for directing the traffic of vehicles.
(2) The green light signal can have in its field the image of a pedestrian in motion, and the red one, the image of a stopped pedestrian.
(3) The light signals for pedestrians can be accompanied by acoustic signals to ensure the crossing of the road by the blind persons.
(4) On the road sectors where the traffic values allow, the administrator of the public road, with the approval of the police, can install in the area of the marking of the pedestrian crossing traffic lights or special panels with manual control of the request of green, which can be made directly by pedestrians.
(1) The green light signal allows passing.
(2) When the green light signal starts to operate intermittently it means that the time allocated to crossing the road is in the process of being exhausted and the red signal follows. In this case the pedestrian surprised in crossing the road must hurry the passing, and if the road is provided with a refuge or a space prohibited to the traffic of vehicles, to wait on this for the appearance of the green light signal.
The intermittent green light signal and the red light signal prohibit pedestrians from engaging in crossing on the carriageway.
In the case of correlated traffic light operation, along a route can be installed timing devices of the time related to the color, as well as light devices that show to the traffic participants the times established by the traffic light program, and for the drivers of motor vehicles, also the speed of movement.
The warning traffic light is installed at the exit from the intersection and is constituted from a lighting unit with intermittent yellow light. This can have in its field the image of a pedestrian in movement, with yellow color on black background.
For signalling and directing the traffic on the road sectors where works are executed on the carriageway, except highways, mobile traffic lights can be installed temporarily, with the obligation of pre-signalling these.
(2) At the level crossing with the current railway provided with automatic signalling installations without barriers, the prohibition of road traffic is realized, optically, by the operation of the devices with intermittent-alternative red lights and the extinguishing of the control signalling represented by intermittent white light and, acoustically, by the emitting of intermittent sound signals.
(1) The signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is considered realized even only in one of the following situations:
a) by the lighting of a single light unit of the device with intermittent-alternative red light;
b) by the operation of the sound system;
c) by the horizontal position of a single semi-barrier.
(2) The road traffic is considered also prohibited in the situation in which the barriers or semi-barriers are in the process of lowering or raising.
Is prohibited the entering in an intersection even if the light signal or a priority sign allows, if because of the traffic congestion the driver of the vehicle risks to remain immobilized, hindering or preventing the carrying out of the traffic.
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The light signals are white or differently colored lights, emitted successively, continuously or intermittently, by one or more lighting units that make up a traffic light (art. 47 paragraph 1 of the Regulation).
The traffic lights that emit light signals for directing the traffic in the intersections are installed obligatorily before the intersection, so that they are visible from a distance of at least 50 m. These can be repeated in the middle, above or on the other side of the intersection (art. 48 paragraph 1 of the Regulation).
The meaning of the traffic lights is valid on the entire width of the driving direction, regardless if the road has one or more lanes in each direction.
But on the roads with two or more lanes in each direction, the traffic lights can be installed above one or some of the lanes, in which case the meaning of the light signals is limited to the lane or lanes above which they are installed (art. 48 paragraph 2 of the Regulation).
The intermittent yellow light signal allows passing, the driver of the vehicle being obliged to move with reduced speed, to respect the meaning of the road signalling and of the traffic rules applicable in that place (art. 53 paragraph 2 of the Regulation).
This is installed, usually, in dangerous places. For example, pedestrian crossings, children playgrounds. This can have in its field the image of a pedestrian in movement, with yellow color on black background (art. 62 of the Regulation).
The order of the colors of the lenses of the traffic light with two colors, from top to bottom, is: red, green;
The green light signal allows passing (art. 59 of the Regulation).
- When the green light signal starts to operate intermittently it means that the time allocated to crossing the road is in the process of being exhausted and the red signal follows. In this case the pedestrian surprised in crossing the road must hurry the passing, and if the road is provided with a refuge or space prohibited to the traffic of vehicles, to wait on this for the appearance of the green light signal (art. 59 of the Regulation).
- The intermittent green light signal and the red light signal prohibit pedestrians from engaging in crossing on the carriageway (art. 60 of the Regulation).
The light signal intended only for directing the traffic of pedestrians has in the field of the red signal the image of a stopped pedestrian, and in the field of the green signal the image of a pedestrian in movement.
The light signals for pedestrians can be accompanied by acoustic signals to ensure the crossing of the road by the blind persons.
On the road sectors where the traffic values allow, the administrator of the public road, with the approval of the police, can install in the area of the marking of the pedestrian crossing traffic lights or special panels with manual control of the request of green, which can be made directly by pedestrians. (art. 58 of the Regulation)
The light signal intended for directing the traffic of bicycles and electric scooters has in its field the image of a bicycle with red color, respectively green on black background. The same destination has also the light signal of a traffic light accompanied by an additional panel on which a bicycle is shown. (art. 55 of the Regulation).
The succession of the colors of the lenses, from top to bottom, is the following: red - yellow - green.
GREEN: The green light signal allows passing.
The traffic light with three colors can have an additional intermittent green light, mounted at the same level as the normal green light of the traffic light, in the form of a green arrow on a black background, with the tip to the right, its lighting means the permission for vehicles to continue their way in the direction indicated by the arrow, regardless of the color of the electric traffic light, with the condition of giving priority to vehicles and pedestrians who have the right of way (that is those specified at art 133) (art. 59 paragraph 4 of OUG and art. 51 of the Regulation).----ART. 133 In the case provided at art. 51 paragraph (2), the drivers of the vehicles are obliged to give priority to the traffic participants with whom they intersect and who move according to the meaning of the color of the traffic light that addresses them.
RED: The red light signal prohibits passing. (art. 52 of the Regulation)
At the red light signal the vehicle must be stopped before the stopping marking or, as the case may be, for the pedestrian crossing, and in the absence of this, at the traffic light.
If the traffic light is installed above or on the other side of the intersection, in the absence of the stopping marking or for the pedestrian crossing, the vehicle must be stopped before the edge of the carriageway of the road that is going to be intersected.
When the red light signal operates simultaneously with the yellow one, this prohibits passing and announces the appearance of the green light signal.
YELLOW: When the yellow light signal appears after the green light signal, the driver of the vehicle who approaches the intersection must not pass the stopping marking or, as the case may be, for the pedestrian crossing, and in the absence of this, of the traffic light, except the situation in which, at the appearance of the signal, he is so close to those places that could not stop the vehicle safely (art. 53 paragraph 1 of the Regulation).
When the yellow light signal operates intermittently, this allows passing, but the driver of the vehicle is obliged to move with reduced speed, to respect the meaning of the road signalling and of the traffic rules applicable in that place (art. 53 paragraph 2 of the Regulation). For example in the given situation, the meaning of the regulatory priority signs will be respected, the motor vehicle being obliged to give priority because it encounters the sign “Give way”.
In the case of correlated traffic light operation, along a route can be installed timing devices of the time related to the color, as well as light devices that show to the traffic participants the times established by the traffic light program, and for the drivers of motor vehicles, also the speed of movement (art. 61 of the Regulation).
On the red or green lamps of the traffic lights black arrows can be applied that indicate the directions of movement corresponding to these. In this case the prohibition or the permission of passing imposed by the light signal is limited to the direction or directions indicated by these arrows. The same meaning have also the arrows applied on the additional panels that accompany, at the lower part, the traffic lights.
The arrows for traffic lights have the following meanings: The arrow with the tip to the left for the direction to the left, the arrow with the tip upwards for the direction straight ahead, the arrow with the tip to the right for the direction to the right, the arrow with two tips one to the left and one upwards for the directions straight ahead and to the left and the arrow with two tips, one to the right and one upwards for the directions straight ahead and to the right (art. 49 of the Regulation).
The driver of the vehicle who enters an intersection at the green color of the traffic light is obliged to respect also the meaning of the signs installed inside it. (art. 57 of the Regulation).
Is prohibited the entering in an intersection even if the light signal or a priority sign allows, if because of the traffic congestion the driver of the vehicle risks to remain immobilized, hindering or preventing the carrying out of the traffic (art. 105 of the Regulation).
For signalling and directing the traffic on the road sectors where works are executed on the carriageway, except highways, mobile traffic lights can be installed temporarily, with the obligation of pre-signalling these (art. 63 of the Regulation).
In the intersections the directing of the tram traffic can be realized also by traffic lights having light signals with white color, correlated with the light signals for directing the traffic of the other vehicles (art. 54 of the Regulation).
The traffic lights for trams have the shape of a box with four lighting units with white color, of which three are positioned horizontally, at the upper part and one at the lower part, under the one in the middle, being accompanied by panels with additional signs.
The free passing signal for trams is given by the light combination of the lower lamp with one of the three lamps situated at the upper part for indicating the direction. (art. 50 of the Regulation)
For example:
The signal prohibiting the passage of the tram is given by the simultaneous lighting of the three lights from the upper part of the box.
When above the traffic lanes are installed devices that emit red and green signals, these are intended for signalling the lanes with reversible traffic.
Their meaning is the following (art. 56 paragraph 1 and 2 of the Regulation):
At the level crossing with the railway provided with automatic signalling installation (without barriers/semi-barriers), the signals have the following meanings (art. 69 paragraph 2 of the Regulation):
At the level crossing with the railway provided both with automatic signalling installation and with barriers/semi-barriers, the light and acoustic signals have the same meaning as at the one without barriers. In addition, the prohibition of passing is indicated also by the lowering of the barriers/semi-barriers in horizontal position.
If the barriers or semi-barriers are lowered, in the process of lowering or raising, or only one of the barriers/semi-barriers is lowered, this thing obliges the drivers of vehicles to stop (art. 71 paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 of the Regulation).
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