You intend to make a U-turn. Do you have to yield the right of way to the rail vehicle?
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Correct answer
YES
Explanation
In the video, you are approaching a junction with traffic lights showing green and you intend to make a U-turn; on the left side, along the roadway, there are tram tracks on which a tram is travelling. When making the U-turn, you will cross the tracks, so you are obliged to give way to the rail vehicle. The answer is: yes.
The Road Traffic Act states that a rail vehicle has right of way over other vehicles regardless of the side it is coming from, and that this rule also applies where directions of traffic cross outside a junction. An ordinary green signal does not change this rule, because a tram running along the street has green in the same phase. You stop before the tracks, let the tram go through, and only then do you make the U-turn.
Legal basis: Art. 25 para. 2 and 3 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)