Adelaide's complicated triple-decker parking signs are catching out locals and damaging CBD businesses Peter Holden, proprietor of the Duke of York Hotel in Currie St, standing next to a confusing 'triple-decker' parking sign outside his pub. He was recently booked when the parking restrictions changed and believes the confusing signs are damaging business. ADELAIDE'S confusing triple-decker parking signs are turning business away from the city, traders say. They complain that signs displaying three separate restrictions make it difficult for passing drivers to know whether they can park legally and people who are fined are discouraged from return visits to the CBD. An Advertiser analysis reveals that 46 on-street parking zones in the CBD - almost 200 parking spots - are governed by at least three different parking restrictions. Peter Holden, 65, a resident and owner/operator of two businesses in the city, says he was recently issued a parking infringement notice for parking outside his Duke of York hotel, in Currie St, in what was formerly a loading zone. TELL US: Have you been unfairly fined? Do you find the triple-decker signs confusing? Mr Holden did not realise the triple-decker sign had changed. "I came out and found out I was ticketed because they had changed the loading zone to be up to 2pm in the afternoon then to become a bus zone," he said. I still to this time have not seen a bus park in it. An example of the "triple-decker" parking signs now dominating the CBD. Jemimah Davis, 25, works at gallery and gift shop Urban Cow Studio in Frome St, near a clearway she knows catches out many of the shop's customers and suppliers. Lots of people get pinged around here, doing deliveries or when they're in the shop. We have to run out and tell people because it's not that obvious and there are lots of different signs." she said. Mr Holden and Ms Davis believe complex parking signs are discouraging trade from customers in passing cars. More: The city-parking secret the council won't tell you But Gavin Webster, the program manager for City Parking and Business Services at Adelaide City Council, says there is a need to balance simplicity with turnover, traffic flow and business trade. "We aim to keep parking controls and the relevant signs as simple as possible," he said. However, there are locations where conditions such as road traffic safety, public transport, or stakeholder requirements require some signs to have up to three different parking controls during the week. Mr Holden also hopes that the council will increase consultation around parking changes. "Part of the issue is that individual parking signs have been arbitrarily changed with no notification, no consultation and no discussion by the elected members, it's just been an administrative decision," he said. According to information released by the council earlier this year, triple-decker signs are clustered along Currie, Grenfell, Pulteney and Pirie streets and North Tce and Gawler Place.