Recently briefly parked on Queensway, W2 for about twenty minutes at about 20:50 on a weekday evening - parking here is in purpose-built bays off the carriageway which have normal white-lined markings between spaces - there are no road lines or other markings on or next to the carriageway.
I always check the time board for restrictions in town, and, looking out of the car window, the sign here says Pay by Phone hours are 8.30am-6.30pm, Mon-Sat, as you might expect. Happy with that, I parked (between two other cars) and left the car.
When I came back to the car, I had the ticket - “Code 02, Parked or loading/unloading in a restricted street where waiting and loading/unloading restrictions are in force”. On closer inspection, out of the car, the parking sign is about three feet high and, at the very top is a restriction on parking after the end of the pay by phone restricted times (ie you cannot park at all apart from the hours in the day when you must pay).
This seems a ridiculously counter-intuitive and confusing regime compared with every other usual parking restriction in London, particularly when the spaces in question aren’t even on the carriageway and there are absolutely no yellow lines or other restriction markings on the bays or carriageways.
I can only assume Westminster know it makes them a lot of money and have tested the signage/markings, but… any advice?
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