Your car gets towed, and who do you blame? Yourself? God no, you blame that impossibly confusing parking sign. It’s a fair accusation, really. Of all the questionable communication tools our cities ...

Comparison between the usual American city parking signs and the redesigned sign in the LADOT Parking Sign Pilot Program (photo by Michael Dorausch, via Flickr; illustration courtesy lamayor.org) Last ...

You might pull into a spot and find a fresh “No Parking” sign you didn’t […] ...

Like many design projects, this one starts with the simple question "how can we fix this?" Parking regulations in big cities are complex and confusing, and public parking signage can take so long to ...

They’re all over town: printed or painted signs in a yard, telling drivers not to park in front of a house. They’re not official signs from the city, threatening legitimate towing or expressing hours ...

Squinting out a car window to decipher a stack of pole-bound parking signs is one of L.A.’s more annoying experiences. That could change starting this weekend, with the launch of a new sign aimed at ...

Washington, D.C., transportation officials acknowledge hundreds of conflicting or confusing street signs have further complicated the search for parking spaces for residents, visitors and workers.

I was embarrassed by the example Gale Holland used to show how confusing parking signs can be. Have we lost our ability to read and make simple deductions? Let me explain those signs in Hollywood.

Try to get to the water in Warwick's desirable Potowomut neighborhood, and you'll quickly find that virtually every street is lined with "No Parking" signs. But on many of those streets, parking isn't ...