If you’re like me, you give a little internal cheer if you score a nearby parking space at the local shopping centre or at work.
Our cities and towns are getting so busy now and parking the car is getting so much harder. We are a 24/7 world and that is now being reflected in the rules we have to abide with concerning parking our motor vehicles.
Where once parking rules were a Monday-to-Friday, nine-to-five thing, today parking signs can reflect half a dozen rules covering day and night and weekends.
It’s a sign of the times given shops and businesses operate far differently now than they once did.
But as a consequence more and more people say they are copping unfair parking fines because multiple rules on poles are far too complicated to read in the limited time one has to park while traversing traffic around you.
Motoring organisations such as the NRMA in New South Wales agree, and is pressuring the government there to makes parking signs far more simple.
Other state and territory motoring bodies are watching with interest.
To prove the point, we set up our own parking sign test with a cross section of drivers to see how they would fare.
And if you want to take the test as well, see how you fare online here.
Good luck.