Resident: Confusing dual parking directive not a sign of the times
THESE two signs are leaving some residents parking mad.
The confusing sign set up on Paradise Island shows a threehour area parking sign atop a two-hour sign.
Resident Tim Ellis said: “The two-hour sign has always been there. It was put there to stop people working in Surfers Paradise from parking all day and walking.
“The change came around the Commonwealth Games. All of a sudden they’ve put this threehour parking sign there.
“It’s confusing to me. What is it? Two hours? Three hours? Or do we get five hours?,” he joked.
Mr Ellis said he raised the question with council last month, but is yet to received a reply. “Occasionally, traffic inspectors do put tickets on people’s cars.”
Despite the confusion, RACQ said the grouping of signs is quite normal. “It’s actually an area parking sign, so it applies everywhere that doesn’t have another sign,” spokesperson Renee Smith said.
Division 7 councillor Gary Baildon said he had not seen the sign himself, but would advise officers to look this morning.
Meanwhile, council held a parking workshop yesterday in which councillors and officers spoke about policies they feel are outdated or need to be reviewed.
“We looked at a myriad of things,” Mayor Tom Tate said. “But I think the next four weeks is going to be a very comprehensive review of car parking in the city.