Traffic signs for parking: Detail decides how drivers are allowed to stand
Created: 12/30/2022 11:46 am
By: Anna Maureen Bremer
Everyone knows the blue parking signs.
But: Hardly anyone notices that they differ in tiny details.
This is how drivers are allowed to stand.
Some people will be glad that they already have their driver's license in their pocket, because crazy traffic signs are appearing more and more often, the meaning of which hardly anyone knows - a car cut in half with four people, for example.
But: Even the most common traffic signs have their pitfalls.
A tiny detail on the well-known blue parking signs often determines how the car is to be parked properly.
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reports on the different variants of the white cars on a blue background.
Correct parking: Details on the traffic sign must be observed
So: Don't laugh now, but these supposedly "same", but somehow not the same traffic signs for parking really exist.
Each divided into right and left!
Facing sidewalk parking with half the vehicle
Sidewalk parking in the direction of travel with the entire vehicle
Sidewalk parking perpendicular to the direction of travel with half the vehicle
Sidewalk parking perpendicular to the direction of travel with the entire vehicle
Traffic signs when parking in different variations - important for drivers
Don't panic - it's not rocket science!
But it is important to know what to look out for.
Parking on the sidewalk, with half the vehicle, is permitted by traffic sign 315-55 on the right in the direction of travel.
Sounds complicated.
Our advice: just look at the traffic sign and park like the car on the sign.
If the car is parked with the right side on the sidewalk, it is parked in the direction of travel, if the car is on the blue sign with the left side on the sidewalk, we can park our car there (i.e. against the direction of travel).
Important: The arrows on the blue parking signs must also be observed: "Longer stretches with permitted half-sidewalk parking are signposted with the beginning, middle and end," explains the Federal Highway Research Institute.
The start of permitted half-sidewalk parking is marked with an arrow pointing to the roadway
marked.
An arrow pointing away from the roadway is used for the end.
If the parking stretch is particularly long, there is also a sign in the middle with both arrows on it.
Parking: Just looking closely at traffic signs explains the correct behavior
And now we simplify the other variants: Of course there is also a blue and white parking sign, on which the car is parked right on the sidewalk.
It means that road users are allowed to park their cars accordingly or even have to park them at this point.
As with "parking halfway on the curb," there may be the additional arrows on the traffic sign that indicate where the parking lane begins and ends (and maybe even where the middle is).
In addition, it is also important to note whether parking is only permitted in the direction of travel, or whether it is also permitted the other way round.
Again, it helps to just look closely at the sign, because the road is indicated next to the parked car.
If it is to the right of the vehicle, the car is parked on the left.
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Next variant: pavement parking with half of the vehicle perpendicular to the direction of travel.
With the parking variants already known, these signs should hardly be a challenge anymore: arrows may indicate the start, end and middle of the route to be parked and the sign indicates whether parking is halfway across the sidewalk in Driving direction left or right is permitted.
The parking signs differ minimally – these are the details that count.
© dpa/Federal Highway Research Institute/Collage: Bremen
The last possibility hardly needs an explanation: Of course there is also the case that the vehicle can be parked right across the sidewalk.
Unsurprisingly: either to the right or to the left in the direction of travel.
And here, too, longer parking spaces may be marked with arrows on the traffic signs.
Incidentally, it is almost as exciting as confusing traffic signs when priority rules are changed that drivers have come to know differently.
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reports on the changes after a court decision.
