Why Is It Starting To Look Like Manhattan Around Here?

Is it "8 am to 4pm" or is it "9am - 5pm"?  Is it "Monday - Friday" or is it "Monday - Saturday"? Why am I so confused?  Are you confusing me intentionally so that my car gets ticketed and I want to strangle someone?  Was this Parking Captain David Miller's idea of a joke?

During last week's Code & Infrastructure Committee -- where, for the second consecutive meeting, no one from the Code Enforcement Department was present, no issues related to our code or code violations were discussed at all and, most importantly, no committee members seemed to mind -- DPW Superintendent Rob Perry told the committee that he had purchased "about $3,000" in signs.  "We'll be swapping out the existing with ones that are in better shape."  And it actually happened!

   

What's worth pointing out are the three new NO STANDING signs that were installed earlier this week on the south side of the 200 block of Columbia Street, a task that should have happened years ago.  Those NO STANDING signs function as the complement of the two NO PARKING signs on the north side of the street which explain the Thursday night overnight parking rule in that block.  Not the overnight standing rule! Signs on one side of the street say NO PARKING while across the street only NO STANDING signs can be found.  (At least they're readable now.)  Rob Perry had an opportunity to fix this incongruity and confusion, but he did not.  He had his sign crew replace the existing signs for ones in better shape, regardless of what was printed on them, how confusing they might be and even if someone made a mistake twenty years ago.

NO STANDING, whatever that means.
Can I PARK my car here?  Am I in Manhattan?

NO PARKING.  Can I STAND my car on this side?