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Hi guys, I want some help interpreting a parking sign next to my house.
There is a no-parking road sign (the round sign with just one diagonal line crossing it) close to my house. The problem that I have with it is that on the bottom the white arrow is pointing to the left and that makes me confused. When I try to search this kind of sign I always see that when the arrow is on the top and pointing to the left that indicates the start of the no-parking zone and when the arrow is on the bottom pointing to the right it indicates the end of the zone. When both arrows are present, it indicates that the zone is still active. But, in my case, the arrow is on the bottom and pointing to the left. How am I supposed to interpret it? Should I always think that arrow on the top indicates start and on the bottom indicates end of the zone and just ignore the direction or should I interpret it somehow differently?
Thank you!
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It doesn’t matter whether the arrow is on the top or the bottom. It’s the direction it’s pointing in that counts.
You can upload an image to a image hosting site and link it here then. Just edit it into your top post.
>(i can’t see a way to post a picture, so I will describe the sign)
You could post a link to the image
Might be an older sign. Until some years ago, the arrows were always at the bottom. Just as valid.
Technically, the current StVO and VzKat specify that the signs with left-arrow on the top (283-10), right-arrow on the bottom (283-20), or both (283-30) are supposed to be placed on the right side of the road, whereas the ones with a left-arrow on the bottom (283-11), right-arrow on the top (283-21), or both (283-31) go on the left side (e.g. of a one-way street), cf. [http://www.vzkat.de/2017/Teil03/Teil03.htm#:~:text=Haltverbot](http://www.vzkat.de/2017/Teil03/Teil03.htm#:~:text=Haltverbot)
The same is true for the various 286 (“no parking” as opposed to “no stopping”) variants.
In [older versions](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildtafel_der_Verkehrszeichen_in_der_Bundesrepublik_Deutschland_von_1971_bis_1992#:~:text=waagerechten%20Pfeil) of these signs, the arrows were always on the bottom. Old permanent signage might still use these old versions. In temporary signage, while not strictly legal, the three pairs 283-10/283-11, 283-20/283-21, and 283-30/283-31 are occasionally also used interchangably (whatever the workers putting up the signs have available).
In any case: If you imagine the sign turned to face the roadway, parallel to the curb, the arrow points in the direction of effect. You can double-check by going that way: Sooner or later you must encounter a matching sign with an arrow pointing in the opposite direction.
Alternatively (following the wording of StVO appendix 2), you can memorize that an arrow pointing towards the roadway signifies the start, and an arrow pointing away from the roadway signifies the end.
Now that you guys can see the image, what does the Taxi part mean? It means that the restriction applies to taxis too, so I as not a taxi can just ignore it?