Angelenos sick of getting stuck trying to decipher parking signs, rejoice.
Parking signs in parts of downtown Los Angeles are getting a new look Friday as Mayor Eric Garcetti unveils newly designed signs to make it easier for Angelenos to know when it's OK to park on a certain street.
Garcetti and Councilman Paul Krekorian are among those who went to Sixth and Spring streets to install the first sign displaying visual, grid-style graphs to indicate parking restrictions
These signs feature vertical bars representing 12-hour cycles for each day of the week, with no-parking times in red, and parking-permitted times in green. The City Council agreed earlier this week to spend $20,000 to test out the new signs.
Garcetti told NBC4 earlier this week he hopes the new signs mean fewer tickets.
"That's not something you usually hear out of a mayor, and people are convinced we want tickets for our revenue. That is not what tickets are for," Garcetti said. "We should get people in and out of shops. We should allow people to find a good place to park."
The city Transportation Department will install about 100 signs on seven blocks of Spring and Main streets — between Second and Ninth streets — and test them out over a six-month period starting this spring.
Krekorian, who introduced the motion to look into redesigning parking signs, said this week that he does not want parking to be a "guessing game where people worry about getting ticketed because they can't easily tell what the restrictions are and when they are in effect."
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"I'm excited to test out these new, grid-style parking signs on city streets and, hopefully, to expand them to areas throughout the city as soon as possible," he said.
The idea to redesign parking signs is also part of the Transportation Department's Great Streets for Los Angeles strategic plan released last September.
