Who Needs Clear And Easily Understandable Parking Signs Anyway?

3 responses to “Who Needs Clear And Easily Understandable Parking Signs Anyway?”

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   memeweaver

   August 14, 2018

   Inner West Council in Sydney complicates it further by having a requirement that you go to a machine and get a “free ticket” during the day. However they’ve split the day up so that you have one timezone ending at 12.30pm and another starting then. If you’ve come into the area around lunch time, you have to return to the vehicle at exactly 12.30 to get a new ticket or risk a fine for not having secured a “free” ticket. (A morning ticket can go no later than 12.30 )

   I’d also like to thank all those City of Sydney folks who put up “Special event” signs after you’ve parked, and then send someone around to fine you. Or those who erect a new sign overnight and then fine you (which happened to me in Bellevue Hill).

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   bonehead

   August 14, 2018

   IMHO, Councils are doing this more and more because it increases the likelihood of patrons making a mistake and paying for it (someone needs to pay for their dough nuts)…

   My partner got one in a suburb of the city we live in that was “part of the CBD parking district”. When we explained it to council that we looked for street signs, we were told that there were large signs detailing the parking restrictions at every entry point into the district. The council officer asked where we had come from and then explained that the sign was in the middle of a bridge coming from that direction.

   When we drove past it the next time, there was absolutely no way anyone could have the time to read all the information on it and there was nowhere to stop to do so – you’d get a ticket if you did for causing traffic chaos. In effect, the council had placed the sign knowingly in a location that it couldn’t be observed. Where we parked the car was over 2 km’s from the sign.

   We challenged the ticket and got off but it wasn’t easy and I’ve no doubt the council has made a motza out of it.

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      memeweaver

      August 15, 2018

      Catching the “out of town” driver is a lucrative tactic. I got caught in London switching into a bus lane by accident – there were no signs and any road markings were obscured by rain and other vehicles. The council was completely unwilling to let me off, even though their camera must have been able to capture the conditions and the fact that I tried to get out the lane, but other vehicles wouldn’t let me merge back.

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3. 

   finefighter

   August 14, 2018

   Although they did have the trial of those dumb “chart” signs in Brisbane, it did not fix anything and made it worse as they were added with the original signs, not instead of. In the image above from Sydney there are “only” four signs (some with multiple instructions) – the examples in Brisbane with the dumb “chart” added, meant up to 7 different signs (some with multiple instructions at once) on the one pole. Have photos to prove it – there may have been even more than 7! The biggest irony is that often the signs included at least one no standing period which means that to slow down and read all seven signs would require you to stop and thus breach the instruction. Fought the council and eventually won – waste of my time – just for them trying to revenue raise, and simultaneously look stupid at the same time.

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