Near Hoorn a service bus is lawfully driving on a bus lane. Where that bus lane merges with the ordinary carriageway, there is a gore area. You are on the ordinary carriageway and see the bus come across that area towards your lane. May the bus drive over the gore area there?
Yes, because here the bus is lawfully following a bus lane that merges
Yes, because in busy traffic the area is an extra lane for traffic
No, the bus too must drive around the gore area here
Explanation
False — an exception applies here. A gore area is off limits to ordinary traffic, but anyone lawfully following a bus lane or peak-hour lane that runs across such an area at a merge may follow it. (VekaBest p.51-52 (Hoofdstuk 3 §3.2 Verkeerstekens op het wegdek))