Hello all,
We will be renting a vehicle during our stay in March, and thought we might learn the traffic signs on Bonaire before we arrive.

I found a link (http://www.lacabana.com/members/trafficsigns.shtml) to traffic signs on Aruba. Are these close enough, or is there a better guide to traffic signs specific to Bonaire?

I've only been on the island once. Had a rental for 10 days. Don't worry to much about acclimating yourself to the road signs on Bonaire. I think I can remember seeing like one or two signs downtown! Although I haven't been there in a year and a half now. That will be fixed this July!

I copied this from a map provided by TCB (the Tourism Corporation Bonaire). I couldn't find any copyright notice on it, so I hope this is OK:

Susan, I've been looking all over for that thing! It doesn't include "overstekende ezels" may favorite, which means "donkey crossing"

I'd forgotten that one, Seb - if I remember correctly, the graphic is quite cute.

Also
"ook vor berman" (or something close to that), which I think means soft shoulder, but correct me if I'm wrong.

Nat,
It's "Ook voor bermen", meaning it also applies for the shoulder. (Probably where parking is prohibited or something, I guess)....

MIchael

Thanks, you guys and gals are the greatest!

I'm going to have to get a picture of the donkey crossing sign.

Amy

Tadaaaaaa

Wow! Ask and you shall receive....

Amy ;)

ha....as long as you don't ask for money :-)

Susan, thanks for that one...Rich, it is important to learn the signs...I didn't know what the "Right of way at Intersection" meant and almost got clobbered by Lisa Gas last time...I'm going to study it this time, so I don't make that mistake again...I was supposed to yield (no stop sign, just the yield sign) and the person coming that had the right of way did not slow down at all...Kelly was with me, she can vouch for the "oops" factor!

I don't understand how people can speed through the big dip/bump in the road at that intersection Cynde.
Many folks drive around the hump de dumps on Kaya Industria, I know I do.
I think soft or no shoulder is in fact ook voor berman.

LOL Seb, I think that Kelly and I were probably blabbing blabbing blabbing, and I know I looked at the sign, and for some reason, ignored it and thought it must be "insignificant", however, I soon learned it wasn't!

It took me the longest time to realize that the "No Parking" wasn't "Stop". Yes, I know it doesn't say Stop on it, but to me, it looks like STOP.

Sheesh, Not STOP - it looks like "Do not enter". I can't even keep straight my not being able to keep straight what the street signs mean!

I, too, have had those heart stopping moments with that sign Susan

Amy,
Their right. I guess there is a road sign or two more than I recall. I guess I was to busy looking for the best signs on the island...the little yellow rocks which signify the dive sites!
Now there is a sign you won't find anywhere else in the world!

I like the "Let op, drempels" sign (I think it's Kaya Industria) when you leave Lisa Gas

Cynde, anyone who knows me knows you are exaggerating. Me? Blabbing, blabbing, blabbing??? Surely you jest. heee heee

"Let op, drempels" means: Watch out: hump de dumps (to speak with Seb).
Soft shoulder is "zachte berm", you see those a lot in The Netherlands.
(it's 1 berm, and 2 or more bermen)

And don't forget that the rules governing the "circle" near Sand Dollar are different than rules for rotaries/circles in the US ....

Oh, right: If you're coming in from the "Main" (North-South) road - you have the right of way. If you come in from the Rincon side, or you are already in the rotary but going around past the main road (say, going south but intending to take the Rincon Road), you have to yield right-of-way at the intersection with the main road. It takes a bit of getting used to (and we took a LOT of verbal abuse before we learned the rules!)

Thanks for posting the traffic signs.
I had no idea what some of them meant when we visited the island last year. Will try and study them before our planned return this summer.

So Karen, any idea what ook vor berman is? no one seems to know on the island I asked either, though I didin't go door to door or anything

Also don't forget,,,,

Painted on the road (most are still visible...they were painted not too long ago)... are the indicators of who has to stop and yield to the other. Where you see the row of diamonds painted on the road....the person coming up to the POINTS of the diamonds must stop to the oncoming traffic :-) (This will also help you remember the rule at the circle.)

Thanks for the translation, Karin, I'd been reading "Let Op, Drempels" as "let up (i.e, take your foot off the gas) becasue you're going to go over some humpy bumpy Drempels as per the picture on the sign"

A sign I saw years ago entering the province of Alberta, Canada, from the province of Saskatchewan, said "Warble Fly Control Area"...I wondered how the warble flies obeyed this if they didn't drive the trans-Canada highway....no Drempels to slow them down...

Seb, "ook voor bermen" means: also for the shoulders. I guess this shield is placed under another sign, indicating that what the sign says (for instance: no parking) doesn't only apply for the road, but also for the shoulder.

Danke U Karin!