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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

okay so basically, here is when you can park:
AFTER 7PM but BEFORE 6AM (11 hours that are "safe")
AFTER 9AM but BEFORE 4PM (5 hours that are "safe")
- OR -
if it's a Weekend, any time is OK.

HOWEVER,
Do not try to leave your car there for any longer than 120 minutes, or any times outside of the 120 minute window you started, because parking enforcement may believe that your car has been there longer than 2 hours and it's all about what they perceive - best not to give them any bright ideas or else you'll have to argue it in traffic court.
(That said, the parking meters may have times of operation outside of which it would be OK to park longer than 2 hours. Make sure to check the meter, because if this 2 hour enforced window is only in effect on weekdays between 9am and 4pm you may be allowed to park overnight unmolested.)

But then we get to the exception signs that have been taped on beneath. The owner of this property can designate any exceptions they want, because as owners of the property they get to decide who is or is not authorized to be there.

The first exception sign:
Notice it's pointing to the left. It's overriding the "NO PARKING" blanket rule and specifically allowing tour buses to use the area, which is fine.
2023-08-30 was a Wednesday.
On that Wednesday evening through Thursday morning at 6AM, a tour bus is allowed to park to the left of this signpost overnight whereas it would not have been allowed otherwise, which is pretty cool and convenient for whoever needs that bus.

The second exception sign:
2023-08-31 was the aforementioned Thursday.
The time listed on it is a bit hard to read but I believe it's saying PM.
So, overnight Thursday night into Friday morning, only tour buses are allowed to park to the right of the signpost.
Friday morning after 6AM, it's business as usual again, which means parking is allowed for regular paying customers from 9AM to 4PM, and then once again ok for customers to park after 7AM and leading into the weekend.

This brings us to the third exception sign:
It's also pointing to the right, and reserving the space for tour buses only through its duration.
The duration it's setting aside is the evening of Saturday, September 2nd 2023 beginning at 6pm and proceeding for 24 hours until Sunday evening. The intervening time before this sign went into effect, people were allowed to park all the way through Saturday afternoon. Quite reasonable. However, we now see the fourth sign...

The fourth exception sign seems to be tacked on either as a corrective measure for not reserving enough time to begin with or perhaps due to compliance issues about needing to only assign exceptions in stretches of time no greater than 24 hours or something. It picks up immediately where the third sign left off and carries the exception for tour buses only until Monday, September 4th 2023, at 6AM - whereupon the default configuration kicks back in again.

So, while it takes a little parsing, it's not too difficult to figure out whether or not you can park there at any given time. Sounds like they had a big event requiring some bus traffic for a while though. Hope everybody had a great time with whatever it was!

Seeing as I work for a towing company, understanding these things and being able to explain them to people is relevant to my business, since towing people for not following posted parking procedures is one of our areas of operation.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Great job parsing those. Now do it while driving by

[-] b000urns@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

What in the actual fuck is this lol

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty simple.

No parking to the left of the sign at all normally. Pay parking to the right of the sign normally for a max two hours, but no parking during rush hours in the morning and evening on weekdays to the right of the sign.

Added temporary signs for some event where only tour busses can park on the street during the dates listed. Nobody else on either side of the sign.

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Likely some construction going on and they didn't have a more generic info sign authorized.

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I guess they were expecting a bunch of tour busses to show up that week?

[-] StinkyDave@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I asked a police office what it means. He said up yours kid.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Scholars are still trying to decipher the meaning of this ancient tablet

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

You can't not don't park on the right'nt. Except on Tuesdays not between 8 and 11 or outside of 13 and 15.

[-] Uli@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

This is how regex sounds to me.

[-] Rootiest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is how it sounds to me:

^65[4-9][0-9]{13}|64[4-9][0-9]{13}|6011[0-9]{12}|(622(?:12[6-9]|1[3-9][0-9]|[2-8][0-9][0-9]|9[01][0-9]|92[0-5])[0-9]{10})$

[-] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Me talking to my kid.

"No, no, no, NO, NO!!"

[-] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Lord, at this point it'd be more helpful to have a "parking ONLY permitted at X times" sign.

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

ITT: people who have never encountered city issue special parking permits.

[-] zik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Am I correct in thinking that tour bus operators made the bottom four paper signs and just taped them to the bottom of the legitimate signs here?

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

That place doesn't need my business, if parking is that much of an issue.

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