And in Sydney, a cryptic road rule led to a news crew having their car wrongly towed.
9News reporter Eddy Meyer was on Kent Street in Sydney’s CBD in October with a cameraman and assistant ahead of an interview.
The team pulled the Nine crew car up, examined the sign with its eight different directives, and got a ticket from the machine.
But when they came back after the interview, the car was gone.
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It turns out the confusion stemmed from an addition to the clearway section of the sign, due to the public holiday in NSW.
The sign read: “Special Event Clearway 2pm-9pm Sat 30 Sept, Sun 1 Oct, Mon 2 Oct” – which was interpreted that the clearway was for 2pm-9pm on each of those days.
However, the towing company had interpreted it as being in place from 2pm on Saturday until 9pm on Monday.
Transport for NSW later confirmed the news crew and other drivers whose cars were towed were in the right.
