A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs

Re:A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs by jmilloy on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @10:49AM (#8923567)

Having a single (different) sign for each audience makes a lot more sense than a different sign for each rule or timeslot. That is, commercial vehicles and pedestrians can each have their own sign, and only when necessary.

Then at least I know that I'm looking at all of the information that pertains to me, and that this information isn't contradictory.

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Re:A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs by sukilot on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @10:58AM (#8923606)

"Standing" is for vehicles, not pedestrians. It means "idling engine".

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Re:A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs by jmilloy on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @12:35PM (#8924236)

Yeah I wondered about that, and guessed wrong. I'm used to seeing the words "idling" or "stopping" for cars and "loitering" for people, and never "standing".

I suppose if you want to put non-parking rules (e.g. idling rules) on a parking sign, and then complain that the parking sign is too complicated, then that's a different problem.

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Re:A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs by mod on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @11:33AM (#8923810)

I don't think he missed that, I think he used the wrong word to refer to non-commercial vehicles.

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