What does this parking sign mean?

forgotmyname

neilmcl wrote: »

Parking zone - usually a letter followed by a number to indicate a sub zone/bay.

So they have permits that restrict the street, where one street maybe D(1) and the next street maybe D(2)? In the above sign any D number permit is acceptable?

Or permits for area D where you can park in any street but not the next street where it maybe area E# ?

Iceweasel

What complicated rules some people have to put up with.

harveybobbles

the D (n) means you can only park outside of them hours when its Dark (or night)

forgotmyname

harveybobbles wrote: »

the D (n) means you can only park outside of them hours when its Dark (or night)

What happens when there is an eclipse?

harveybobbles

forgotmyname wrote: »

What happens when there is an eclipse?

They council come around and replace all signs.

neilmcl

harveybobbles wrote: »

They council come around and replace all signs.

Exactly, what do you think we pay our council tax for.

PasturesNew

neilmcl wrote: »

Exactly, what do you think we pay our council tax for.

The training courses they have to go on so they understand:
a) which signs to change
b) how to change them
c) diversity training (different course/street)
d) gender awareness training

Can't have "just anybody" doing the job!

forgotmyname

What puzzles me is why they choose someone to design a road layout who i assume either cannot drive at all or has never been anywhere near the road they are planning the road markings for.

Main A38, a dual carriage way upto the roundabout and a dual carriageway off at every single exit.
1st painted lines, all the left hand lanes are left turn only. Best guess is that approx 3% of the cars turn left. 70% go straight on and the rest turn right.

2nd painted lines they open up the entrance to the roundabout to make it 3 lanes, but the roundabout is only wide enough for 2 cars so lots of horns sounding and near misses or worse.

3rd bout if lines included making the roundabout wider to accomodate the 3 lanes and actually makes sense now, but the traffic still moves slower than it did with just the 2 lanes, you get the odd person in the left lane that wants to go straight on and cannot follow the lane markings around and want to go in a straight line, then the people in the centre wanting to turn right and people on the right wanting to go straight on.

Just painting the lines cost then £13,000 - £15,000 each time. Must be expensive paint.