Parking signs in parts of downtown Los Angeles are getting a new look.
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a $20,000 expenditure to test out the new signs designed to make it easier to figure out when parking is restricted and when it is allowed.
The sign display visual, grid-style graphs to indicate when parking is restricted. 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.
About 100 signs will be installed on seven blocks of Spring and Main streets — between Second and Ninth streets — and tested by the city Transportation Department over a six-month period starting this spring.
“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 and when they are in effect,” said Councilman Paul Krekorian, who introduced the motion to look into redesigning parking signs.
“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.
Mayor Eric Garcetti, Krekorian and other city officials will hold an event in downtown Los Angeles on Friday to talk about the new signs.
— City News Service