Confusing signs on Rozelle Sydney parking space lead to it being dubbed the ‘yeah nah’ spot
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Confusing signs on an inner-city parking space see locals dub it the ‘yeah nah’ spot – as the council explains how the error happened
- Image shared online showed two contradictory parking signs facing each other
- The parking spot in Sydney’s inner west had gained fame as the ‘yeah nah’ spot
- The Inner West Council responded to the issue and has already replaced signs
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Conflicting signs have left local drivers confused as to when, or if, they can use a sought-after parking spot in Sydney’s inner west.
The signposts either side of the parking spot at 13 Waterloo Street, Rozelle were shared online this week.
To the left of the space, a ‘4P’ metered ticket sign seems to indicate drivers can park there for four ticketed hours during day-time hours.
However to the right, another sign notifies drivers they are not allowed to park there at all.
The confusion signs led one person online to dub the space the ‘yeah nah’ parking spot.
‘Is parking here yeah nah, or nah yeah?’ a perplexed local asked under the Reddit post.
The image, shared on Reddit, showed a car parked between a ‘4P’ sign and a ‘No Parking’ sign (pictured), confusing many locals and leading to a swift fix from the Inner West Council
Others joked the park was either illegal or permissible depending on the direction from which drivers arrived and which sign they saw first.
‘Drive in, yes. Reverse in, no,’ one user joked.
Some commenters invoked the the famous Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment about whether the cat is dead or alive to ask whether a driver would be fined or not fined for parking the spot.
‘Schroedinger’s (sic) Ranger,’ observed one person.
Earlier images of the parking spot show it once had the right signage, but sometime between March 2021 and last Monday an unknown removalist had changed around the signs
Another user quoted Dirty Harry to sum up the dilemma parkers faced, by asking: ‘Do you feel lucky, punk?’
Earlier satellite images of the parking space show the ‘4P’ sign stood in the spot of the new no parking sign and faced back into the park.
Another user suggested anyone who got ticketed in that spot stood a good chance of successfully appealing the fine.
‘Any ticket can likely be appealed if you’re smart enough to find AS 1742, that standard sets the rules for parking signs and this doesn’t conform with the standards,’ he wrote.
Inner West Council later confirmed the no parking sign had been incorrectly moved to the right-hand side of the space.
‘Council apologises for the confusion and will correct the signage as soon as possible,’ a spokesperson told Yahoo News Australia.
New signage had now been installed confirming the spot is a ‘4P’ ticket zone between 8am-10pm.