Private Road Direction Sign
The reason there is a sign indicating private road, is because they are not strictly private. A private road is a road that is not maintained by the state or similar, but by a private person. As is custom in Sweden, if you own a private road or a land, you can prohibit cars (but not people) from using the road. But if there is support from the state for the maintenance, you can't prohibit cars from it. This is mostly the case if several families live along the road. Then they must form an association for the road. The Swedish word for this kind of road is "enskild", that can be both translated to "private" and "individual".
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