I don't think this will work, only because it didn't work for me. I parked half on the road and half on the gutter in a residential street and got fined. This street is not wide enough to have two cars parked opposite sides of the street and allow traffic to fit between them.
They just said 'if there are no street signs, then you must abide by the law of parking on the street only'. Mind you this was council not police.