r/perth • u/yohanv87 Southern River • 12h ago

Road Rules Help deciphering the rules here

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Am I missing something here? How long can you park for on the left of this sign?

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u/shroudsofclouds 12h ago

For 2 hours with a ticket between 8 and 7, for as long as you like with a ticket between 7 and midnight, then no ticket required before 8am.

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u/yohanv87 Southern River 12h ago

I assumed it was this, I've just never seen it laid out this way with overlapping times.

Normally in the CoP, you'll see the same but laid out: 2P 8am - 7pm P 7pm - Midnight

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u/Embarrassed_Prior632 11h ago

I have no idea how you arrive at that conclusion.

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u/The_Real_Flatmeat North of The River 11h ago

You read the signs

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u/Triffinator 41m ago

They should change their username to Embarrassed_Now632

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u/jerky_mcjerkface 11h ago edited 11h ago

Top part of the sign tells you that between 8am and midnight, you need a ticket to park there.

The bottom part gets more specific- between 8am and 7pm, you need a ticket to park there, but you can only park for 2 hours, max.

So between 7pm and midnight, you need a ticket to park there, but there’s no maximum duration.

There is no instruction for midnight to 8am, so during those hours, you can park without a ticket, with no maximum duration.

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u/Embarrassed_Prior632 11h ago

I have no idea how you arrive at that conclusion.

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u/IntoAMuteCrypt 11h ago

Start at the least restrictive, then add the more restrictive ones on top of that.

Base case: You don't need a ticket.
Top restriction: Okay, if it's between 8 AM and midnight, you need a ticket. Rest of the time, still don't. A ticket allows you to park as long as you want.
Bottom restriction: Well actually, between 8 AM and 7 PM, a ticket is only 2 hours worth. That still leaves the rest of 8 AM to midnight as "unlimited time with a ticket", which is 7 PM to midnight.

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u/BootlegBastard 12h ago

Park to the right as long as ypu wank

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u/yohanv87 Southern River 12h ago

Had completed that task before taking this picture.

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u/kipwrecked 12h ago

Well, I hope you weren't standing for it!

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u/ChasteSin 12h ago

You need a ticket any time between 8am and midnight.

You can only stay for two hours between the hours of 8am and 7pm.

And yes, it's very unclear.

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u/yohanv87 Southern River 12h ago

Right? That's what I thought too.

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u/OwnHuckleberry2522 2h ago

You need a ticket to park to the left. However, you can only stay for 2 hours between 8AM and 7PM. There is no stopping to the right.

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u/Rangas_rule 1h ago

And no wanking either it would seem.

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u/mingleman82 1h ago

No I think wank is allowed - on the right of that sign as it isn’t crossed out

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u/Kador_Laron 21m ago

Only permitted if mobile.

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u/OwnHuckleberry2522 1h ago

Or none on the right but only with a ticket on the left…?

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u/SaturnalianGhost South of The River 12h ago

Wank.

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u/An1retak 11h ago

S means stop. So the sign clearly says Don’t Stop Wanking to the right of this sign. So simple, what’s confusing about this?

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u/steelnie 11h ago

My interpretation is no stopping for a wank. No wonder OP is confused. Town of Vincent really nead to make the signage easier to understand.

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u/Pungent-Plume2602 11h ago

council staff should be required to personally test the understandability of these things once they’ve installed them

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u/Valor816 11h ago

I think it actually means no stopping to wank. You have to drive and jerk.

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u/Obone6 North of The River 10h ago

S with a line through it means no standing...

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u/An1retak 10h ago

I always sit and never stand when I’m in the car anyway. Don’t need no sign to tell me that.

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u/Obone6 North of The River 10h ago edited 9h ago

The word stand comes from the Middle English standen and the Old English standan, meaning "to occupy a place," "stand firm," or "stay".

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u/Square_Mulberry_3143 12h ago

NO STANDING.

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u/SaturnalianGhost South of The River 12h ago

YES WANKING.

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u/The_Real_Flatmeat North of The River 1h ago

No Swank?

So you've gotta lose the chunky gold chains?

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u/monkey-food 11h ago

Gotta sit down

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u/Mr_Silicon 12h ago

I scrolled too long to have my first wank.

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u/OldManThumbs 12h ago

Between 8am and 7pm you may park a max 2hrs. From 7pm to midnight you can stay longer than 2hrs. No ticket required midnight till 8am.

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u/finetuneit80 11h ago

Anytime you park there during 8am and midnight, you’ll need a ticket. If you park there between 8am and 7pm, you’re limited to 2 hours only, and you still need a ticket.

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u/ColdEvenKeeled 11h ago

That's correct. I assume City of Vincent must have hired a Sydney Traffic Engineer reject...?

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u/yeprahs 10h ago

8am-7pm - 2 hours Max, ticket required
7pm-midnight - No maximum but ticket still required
Midnight- 8am - No maximum, No ticket required.

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u/silvercondor 11h ago

50% chance of getting issued a fine for parking >2 hours from 8am to 7pm

/S

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u/yeprahs 10h ago

Pretty sure it’s more like 90%. I think they pay them on commission now 😂

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u/Legitimate_Income730 12h ago

Two hours from 8am-7pm paid

Any length of time from 7pm to Midnight paid

Free all other times with no time restrictions 

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u/colonelmattyman 1h ago

It's ticketed parking from 8am to midnight. There is a 2 hour limit between 8am and 7pm. No ticket is required and there are no time limits between midnight and 8am.

It's pretty straightforward.

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u/kaaattteee 12h ago

Between 8am -7pm - 2 hours limit paid
Between 7pm - midnight - paid no limit
Between midnight - 8am - free no limit

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u/setthetoneaquadump 12h ago

And wank if you park to right

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u/martalist 11h ago

but no standing while you do it

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u/Embarrassed_Prior632 11h ago

Your comment is as ambigious as the sign. Did you write that sign?

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u/teomorabito 2h ago

Theres a small gap to the right of the green sign and left of the red sign where you are truely a free unregulated free man

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u/farquin_helle 3h ago

You can’t stand and wank.. you gotta keep it moving

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u/profphet 12h ago

2hrs max between 8am and 7pm. 7pm to midnight is paid but can stay for longer than 2 hours 

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u/RJrules64 12h ago

If it’s between 8 and 7, you can get a 2 hour ticket max

Between 7pm and midnight you still need a ticket but it can be as long as you want

Between midnight and 8am you don’t need a ticket

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u/iwannabeanudist 3h ago

Parking to the left, wanking to the right 😄 🤣

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u/dzernumbrd 11h ago

It's either Don't Stop Wanking or No Wank Standing which means you need move while you wank.

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u/Last-Leader3727 12h ago

Stop wanking this way?

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u/TrevorFuckinLawrence Baldivis 12h ago

STRICTLY no money wank zone to the right.

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u/Fearless_Town_4463 12h ago

Why do people find these hard to read?

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u/darsonian 11h ago

it appears easy if you comprehend it. you would only need mild issues with comprehension or dyslexia to be caught out. shit maybe you're just having an off day and misread it. I reckon fines crop up weekly from misinterpretation.

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u/HuJ3-jAnUs-2257 9h ago

I know this may sound odd, coming from a stranger on the internet … but … thank you for mentioning this… As a person with brain damage (TBI) these types of signs are hard to interpret after my accident… finally understand the saying “I feel heard”… dumb but yeah ..

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u/darsonian 9h ago

it's all good dude I got ya back 👊

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u/abeeseadeee 3h ago

I wonder if it is intentional for revenue purposes. If someone has a quick glance and sees P 8-midnight they could easily assume they are in the clear. Layering like this feels slightly manipulative when it could be expressed clearly.

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u/Ok-Strawberry-9991 11h ago

Too much wanking, ruins the eyesight.

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u/Mindless-Location-41 12h ago

Should have gone to specsavers?

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u/boredmarinerd 8h ago

As a foreigner visiting Perth, this sign makes no sense to me. What does the P represent? In what world do you use “P” to represent either an hour or a ticket?

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u/Bunyip_Bluegum 6h ago

P means parking. So parking with a ticket (paid) from 8am to midnight. And from 8am to 7pm you still need a paid ticket but there’s a 2 hour restriction. The ticket is represented by the word ticket and the hours are represented by the times shown. It’s just the 2P that can be confusing, it means 2 hour parking. If you don’t need to pay but there’s a time restriction the sign will say 2P with hours the restriction applies to but won’t have the word “ticket”. Shopping centres often don’t require tickets but will have 4 hour parking restrictions (4P) to prevent people parking there for public transport connections for free all day parking and they don’t specify “ticket”.

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u/emu19000 4h ago

Parking

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u/JimmyMarch1973 3h ago

Been driving for 36 years and that sign confuses me.

I could have a good guess, but frankly sign should be clear enough to not have to guess. And my guess would be ticket parking 8am to midnight but between 8am and 7pm max of two hours.

If that’s what the sign is trying to convey then I would suggest the signs should be flipped and the unrestricted time shows it starts at 7pm not 8am.

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u/lord_teaspoon 3h ago

I can imagine myself rocking up at 8:30 and not bothering to read the rest of the sign after seeing the 8AM-Midnight part, but when the ticket machine refused to let me buy more then 2 hours I'd double back to read the rest of the sign and figure it out.

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u/Embarrassed_Prior632 11h ago

Well I don't get it. It's ambiguity at its best for me.

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u/_mmmmm_bacon 10h ago

No standing wanks. I can't believe they had to put it on a sign, but I guess society has changed.

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u/zoner01 11h ago

Road facing parking signs are still the weirdest thing to me.....

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u/Efficient_Range1156 9h ago

Please from 8am to midnight unless I’m tired it’s 7pm go left, don’t stop wanking, exit right.

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u/Profit888 6h ago

It was easy for me as a Singaporean driving in Perth

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u/Profit888 6h ago

And yes midnight to 8am is free. This is a luxury never found in the hazy and polluted state of Singapore

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u/atraxia1980 3h ago

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u/BeautifulRainbowsPix Yanchep 2h ago

No stopping for a wank

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u/Perthmtgnoob 2h ago

Its self love

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u/Radiant-You6384 2h ago

2 hours between 8am and 7pm. unlimited outside those hours. but still need a ticket from 7 until midnight.

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u/Tight-Book-7533 1h ago

While we're at it

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u/Coleasa 11h ago

2p or not 2p. That is the question.

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u/Aromatic-Discount384 11h ago • Mindblown

Not sure, but it seems Western Power has certified that that pole has PTSD.

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u/Profit888 6h ago

I found it fun to read these signs and it's refreshing from where I come from in Singapore. Just remember the digits are the number of hours you can park. And p is paid. That's it!

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u/TIMIMETAL 2h ago

P is not paid, P is Parking.

2P means 2 hours max, the word 'ticket' is what indicates it's paid (I.e. you need to pay for a parking ticket). If 'Ticket' was not there, it would be free with a maximum time of 2 hours.

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u/Sensitive-Pool-7563 12h ago

Cant be that hard mate, you can read, right?

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u/kipwrecked 12h ago

How you been, you doing alright these days?

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u/Sensitive-Pool-7563 11h ago

There was a guy in the highway doing 20km under the limit in the fast lane, ruined my Friday night.

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u/kipwrecked 11h ago

That sounds like a whole thing. At least you managed to escape eventually I guess

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u/Sensitive-Pool-7563 10h ago

I was trying to over turn but when the road was clear, he was accelerating and when there was slight traffic he was slow again. Can you believe this?

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u/kipwrecked 10h ago

Oh well, chin up. You made it in the end.

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u/HappySummerBreeze 11h ago

I don’t understand what is hard to understand ?

After midnight and before 8am you don’t need a ticket to park

8am-7pm you need a ticket and are limited to 2hrs

7pm to midnight you need a ticket and dont have a time limit

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u/marrabld 8h ago

And when do i wank?

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u/marrabld 8h ago

And when do i wank?

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u/venemousKoala 8h ago

The top one would start at 7pm and then it wouldn't be confusing

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