To park or not to park?

With sometimes complex directives and rangers on the prowl it can be an expensive question.

Operation simplify: signs can include up to five different parking schedules; the new signs would make it much simpler to establish which schedule affects you.

Now one Sydney council is turning to an idea out of New York as a bold, visual solution to problematic parking signs.

Mosman Council wants the state's councils to lobby Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) to adopt a "time block" model put forward by a Brooklyn designer that it says will cut down the visual clutter as well as unfair penalties.