Core: The parking-ban zone, the parking disc and the parking garage

A parking-ban zone is set up with an entry sign and applies to both sides of the street, even if that sign stands on only one side — that is the key difference from a loose E1 sign (parking ban, only that side) or E2 sign (stopping ban, only that side): a zone governs the full width of the street until the end sign (Book p.165). In a blue zone the parking-disc duty often also applies, for motor vehicles with MORE than 2 wheels — an ordinary motorcycle falls outside this. You set the disc to your arrival time, rounding UP to the next whole or half hour; arrive at 09:47, and you set it to 10:00. Paid parking comes in several forms: via an app with a zone number, via a parking meter machine (ticket behind the windscreen or licence-plate registration), via a parking meter with limited time that you may not top up, and via a parking garage — there you take a ticket at the barrier on entry, but you pay only before exiting. On a woonerf you park only on your own property or on a marked parking space (P-bay), not just anywhere it happens not to obstruct.