Vehicles will drive through the intersection in the following order:

Explanation

Tram, passenger car, bus.

At equal-status junctions a tram has priority over non-rail vehicles whichever direction it travels in. In this picture the tram enters the junction on the rails and is the first vehicle to pass, even though its path changes direction within the junction.

After the tram it is the turn of the passenger car and the bus, and here the right-hand rule decides again: the passenger car is on the bus's right, so the bus must give way to it. The final order is tram, passenger car, bus.

The tram's advantage is rooted in physics, not in courtesy: a tram cannot steer away from an obstacle, its path is completely locked to the rails, and its braking distance on steel rails is several times that of a rubber-tyred vehicle. Blocking a tram's path means creating an unavoidable collision. Two common traps are gathered together in this question: first, thinking that a turning tram must give way to the straight-ahead path — no, the tram's advantage does not depend on its direction of travel; second, putting the bus first because it is public transport, whereas at a junction a bus is judged by the right-hand rule exactly like a passenger car.

• "Passenger car, bus, tram" puts the tram last; at an equal-status junction a tram always has priority over non-rail vehicles. • "Tram, bus, passenger car" starts correctly but swaps the order of the next two vehicles; the passenger car is on the bus's right and must go first.

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