You Shouldn’t Need the Rosetta Stone to Park in Los Angeles

VOICES-Councilmember Paul Krekorian’s idea to make LA’s incredibly confusing parking signs readable, simple and understandable got an enthusiastic welcome at the LA City Council Transportation Committee hearing this week. Krekorian drafted a City Council motion urging the city pursue an alternative, grid-style sign that lays out a 12-hour cycle where parking restrictions are clearly represented in green and red. 

“Everyone who drives in this city has had to deal with deciphering our confusing and complex parking signs,” said Krekorian. “I don’t want parking to be a guessing game where people worry about getting ticketed because they can’t easily tell what the restrictions are wnd when they are in effect. You shouldn’t need a Rosetta Stone to park in Los Angeles. My motion proposes that the city create new, grid-style parking signs that provide more useful information that is both simple and obvious to everyone.” 

LA’s Department of Transportation agreed with Krekorian’s motion and will bring back multiple sign proposals in 45 days. Then, the full City Council will vote on implementing the signage as a pilot program in a targeted area of the city. Krekorian would like to see the pilot program, if successful, spread throughout all of LA. 

For more details, read Krekorian’s motion here.

 

(Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Krekorian, chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee and member of the Transportation Committee, represents Council District 2, which includes the east San Fernando Valley. Reach him on Twitter@PaulKrekorian)

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CityWatch

Vol 12 Issue 83

Pub: Oct 14, 2014