Location markerFlanders
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46. Location marker
A location marker is a roadside reference showing a measured position along a road. It normally identifies a kilometre, mile or smaller interval measured from an established starting point on that route.
Kilometre and hectometre markers help road users, emergency services, road authorities and maintenance crews identify an exact section of road. They do not impose a speed limit, priority rule or access restriction.
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What is a location marker in Belgium?
A Belgian road location marker is a kilometre or hectometre reference point indicating a measured position along a numbered motorway or regional road.
🔗 wegenenverkeer.be • AWV — road number and kilometre point on hectometre posts
🔗 geoportail.wallonie.be • SPW — Bornes routières et autoroutières, updated 7 October 2026
What is a Belgian hectometre point?
It represents a position measured in increments of 100 metres along the road.
🔗 wegenenverkeer.be • AWV — road number and kilometre point on hectometre posts
🔗 geoportail.wallonie.be • SPW — Bornes routières et autoroutières, updated 7 October 2026
May you stop on the motorway merely to inspect a marker?
No. Stopping on a motorway is permitted only in legally allowed places or because of traffic, an emergency or another unavoidable situation.
🔗 wegenenverkeer.be • AWV — road number and kilometre point on hectometre posts
🔗 geoportail.wallonie.be • SPW — Bornes routières et autoroutières, updated 7 October 2026
Does a Belgian location marker impose a speed limit?
No. It is a reference indication and does not replace a C43 speed sign, speed zone or general speed rule.
🔗 wegenenverkeer.be • AWV — road number and kilometre point on hectometre posts
🔗 geoportail.wallonie.be • SPW — Bornes routières et autoroutières, updated 7 October 2026
Start of a speed limit.
English • Traffic sign C43 • Travelling faster than the indicated speed is prohibited from the sign up to and including the next junction, or until any C43 sign, with or without zonal validity, or a sign marking the beginning or end of a built-up area, residential area (zone résidentielle or zone de rencontre), or pedestrian zone.
Français • Signal routier C43 • A partir du signal jusqu'au prochain carrefour inclus, ou jusqu’à chaque signal C43 avec ou sans validité zonale, ou jusqu’au signal indiquant le début ou la fin d’une agglomération, d’une zone résidentielle, d’une zone de rencontre ou d’une zone piétonne, interdiction de circuler à une vitesse supérieure à celle qui est indiquée.
Nederlands • Verkeersbord C43 • Vanaf het verkeersbord tot en met het volgend kruispunt, of tot elk verkeersbord C43 met of zonder zonale geldigheid, of tot het verkeersbord dat het begin of het einde van een bebouwde kom, van een woonerf of erf, of van een voetgangerszone aanduidt, verbod te rijden met een grotere snelheid dan deze die is aangeduid.
