Re:A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs
by gknoy on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @01:41PM
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Electronic signs.
- Free parking (5 hours remaining) - No Parking (4.5 hours remaining)
Of course, that has its own problems, (Power, vandalism, bugs ...) but it would help drivers a LOT. As the article said, no one cares about WHY they can't park, usually. It's only "can I park here right now?" that matters in most cases.
Re:A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs
by dalke on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @02:01PM
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While true, the second most important thing is "can I park here for as long as I need?"
"Free parking (1h 45m remaining)" doesn't help if you want to park for 2 hours and don't know if the next time period is "no parking" or "max 1 hour parking".
The third most important thing is likely knowing about some time in the future, like "will my visiting friend be able to park here on Saturday evening?"
However: it's hard to argue that the three cases that I listed are too many rules, yet it's easy to see that they can cause too many signs using the OP's design. Such a simplification made the point much clearer, but I should have made that explicit.