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September 7, 2005 12:03 AM
Broken: SF parking sign
Cogito Sum writes:
Figure this one out... That is a calendar at the bottom... and this is only the bottom half of the sign!
And it's not just No Parking, it's No Stopping...so you can't stop to read the sign and figure out if you can stop or not.
Brilliant!
"And it's not just No Parking, it's No Stopping"
Actually, it's 'NO tow away' and 'stopping' during those hours. The sign is telling you what times you CAN stop, and when they WON'T tow!
You see what happens when you have to spell everything out for someone lest they complain or sue? Instead of people using their head, we get to see complicated and ridiculous signs such as this because, they "didn't knooooooooow!"
And on certain days, you get a 10% discount on the parking ticket, but only if the date is divisible by two. And if it's not a leap year. And the ticket has to be more than a $100 value. Unless you're a senior or there is a child seat in the car, in which case...
I think the idea is more broken than the sign - why be so specific about the dates? I can see that the black dates are one time and the white dates are another time, but there is no consistency for the dates themselves.
The dates and times are for the scheduled street cleaning. If your vehicle is in the way it will be towed. Then there is a number to call if it is towed.
Wouldn't it be a better idea to use an electronic sign that would read "street cleaning NO Parking/stopping today 1pm-6pm violators will be towed." on the subsequent days?
Broken beyond words, just like the previous SF street sign. They must have an evil genius Catbert type designing their signs.
BTW, DaveC, nice theory... of course there is no way to verify one way or the other by looking at the sign... (Catbert: heh-heh...)
This is Broken unless the city was sued before this sign was put up over someone being towed, but only if that person didn't know that they would be towed and they were towed because the information the complicated sign that inspired this post was trying to convey wasn't available to them. However, the judge may have been an idiot, in which case the sign is Broken regardless except for if Catbert appointed the judge in anticipation of a chance to create this sign, in which case the creator of Dilbert should be exiled.
Those must be some skillful tow truck operators to be able to tow away your car if you stop for more than a couple seconds.
Why on earth would you put a calender on a street sign? Why not schedule street sweeping one day every week.
Then replace the sign with "NO parking on Sundays from 1PM-6PM. Violators will be towed".
signs are becoming increasingly verbose and yet patience of those behind cars stopped on busy streets are becoming increasingly short. I work in SF and a parking garage just opened near where I work. They put a sign advertising it in front of our building and folks are trying to park in our little two car garage now. I told the fellow who wheels out the sign in the morning and he replied "I guess they can't read then." Who has time in morning traffic??
asdfsdfsa: "Those must be some skillful tow truck operators to be able to tow away your car if you stop for more than a couple seconds."
Oh-- you would be suprised what some of these guys can do!!
It's the baseball game schedule - parking is limited around game times. White is day games, Black is night games.
GO GIANTS (sorta)
What's broken then are the companies who hire the aforementioned druggies and hippies. Maby they should require their job applicants to pass a test, "What is 2+2?"
Hey... I know why the sign is designed like that: The sign is so complicated, you have to stop to read it, during which time, a highly skilled tow truck operator will tow your car away because you stopped, violating traffic bylaws.
I also don't like how a lot of signs put things in singular, owever it should be plural. It says "on date below" NO, it should say, "on dates below"
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First! I wonder how much of city time was spent making this sign?
Posted by: Rick at September 7, 2005 01:15 AM