Are you permitted to overtake a rail vehicle in this situation?

In the video you are driving along a street in a town in the lane to the right of the tram tracks, going through a junction with traffic lights on a green light; on the left, on the tracks in the middle of the roadway, a tram is travelling in the same direction. You are allowed to overtake the rail vehicle. The answer is: yes.

The Road Traffic Act states that a rail vehicle may be overtaken only on the right, unless the position of the tracks makes this impossible or the overtaking takes place on a one-way roadway. The tram is running on tracks placed in the middle of the roadway and you are driving on its right, so you overtake it simply by driving faster in your lane - this is an exception to the general rule that you overtake on the left. Overtaking a tram would be prohibited only where the Act prohibits overtaking any vehicle - on a pedestrian crossing without traffic lights and directly before it, or on a level crossing; here traffic at the junction and the crossing is controlled by traffic lights, so the ban does not apply. When overtaking a tram, you watch out for stops: if the tram stops at a stop without a traffic island, you must stop and let the passengers go past, because they get off straight onto the roadway.

Legal basis: Art. 24 para. 4, Art. 26 para. 3 point 1 and para. 6 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)