In one Canadian town, the issue is whether the parking space becomes a space for anyone, or whether it is reserved for a charger technician. No rule on this is written and one has to guess. What do you think?
In one Canadian town, the issue is whether the parking space becomes a space for anyone, or whether it is reserved for a charger technician. No rule on this is written and one has to guess. What do you think?
Is it charging parking or EV Parking? From an enforcement perspective, the space should stay as EV parking because it’s much simpler. ALPR is used commonly for parking enforcement and it’s not worth the hassle to reprogram it based on the status of the charger. In no scenario does it make sense that an ICE vehicle can park there.
If the space is reserved for vehicle charging, that needs to be clearly signed. If it is for EV parking in general then this conversation is moot. Unless there’s a sign, there is no way to determine that the space is reserved for a repair technician - or even if the charger is working. Changing street parking rules based on whether a dongle is working is problematic.
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I’m getting the impression that the only opinion thats different seems to be yours.
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It is slightly ambiguous because if it is labelled as “for EV charging” and you have an EV parked there and it is not charging, you are supposed to vacate the spot. So - if the charger is broken, the spot should be vacant. I can’t see parking enforcement being able to really handle that though unless there’s a connection between charger and enforcement.
But in that case, an ICE vehicle should still never park there.
It’s akin to delivery-only parking on a bank holiday. You still can’t park there even though the shop is closed.
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The entire premise is built around the idea that the spot is reserved for charging. If the charger is broken, the simple answer is that nobody can park there, not that laws cease to apply and the spot can be ICEd.
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Yes, if the charger is broken, it does make sense to reserve the space for charging. To maintain the standard of it being for charging only. If it is reserved for charging, but the charger is broken, then no one parks there until the charger is fixed. Unless the charger is being permanently taken offline, then the space should revert to parking for anyone.
This is because the charger being broken is a temporary status. If it turned into a free parking spot whenever the charger were broken, even if people didn’t vandalize the charger they could simply say “oh, I thought it was broken”, or “it was broken earlier when I parked here”.
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The baker absolutely could penalize the person for parking there if, after being unable to purchase bread, the car owner left the car in that spot as they walked around the rest of the town. No one is suggesting a car owner be penalized the second they park in the spot. But if they decide to stay there after discovering it is not a valid spot, that is on them.
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What did the sign say?
Many of the public charging spots in my city say “reserved for EV charging only”, which unambiguously means that you can only park there if you’re charging. If the charger is broken, you can’t charge there, so you can’t park there.
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How is that ambiguous? You can only park there if you’re charging. If the charger is broken, you’re not charging, so you can’t park there.
It’s only ambiguous in the sense that, you could park there, and run an extension cord to the closest building and plug in and now you’re technically charging but not using the city’s charging infrastructure as I’m sure they intended when they wrote that sign.
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That’s not ambiguity, that’s you willfully misinterpreting a definitive statement.
I don’t know what the sign that you parked at said, because you haven’t told us. I do know that you’re arguing against literally everyone in this thread trying (unsuccessfully) to get anyone to agree with you. Based on that, I’m guessing the problem wasn’t with the signage.
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