City Council Votes To Try Out New Parking Signs
In downtown Los Angeles, parking is hard to come by, but understanding parking signs, is even harder. The Los Angeles City Council approved a $20,000 pilot program Wednesday to try a new style of parking sign.
About 100 signs will be installed on seven blocks of Spring and Main streets and tested by the City Transportation Department over a six-month period starting this spring.
The new sign will use grids to show exactly when and where parking is allowed. They feature horizontal bars representing 12-hour cycles for each day of the week, with no-parking times in red, and green representing the times when parking is permitted.
The new sign is an idea that came from Jay Beeber and Steven Vincent. They started something called the Los Angeles Parking Freedom Initiative to reform the city’s parking policy starting with parking signs.
Mayor Eric Garcetti and city leaders will introduce the sign-testing program this Friday in a news conference at the corner of Sixth and Spring streets.