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The only reason I see to reserve a space for EV is for charging. Unless there is a working charger, it makes no sense to me to prioritize EVs. The 3 possibilities I see when a charger is broken:
I see different people having different opinions, which is why I need this discussion.
I'm getting the impression that the only opinion thats different seems to be yours.
I probably should have posted this as a survey so as to avoid impressions.
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.
The entire issue: by-law, signs, reserved space, is built a charger that is working. The purpose of everything is to charge a car, not to prevent parking. Without a working charger, everything collapses and EV drivers are not affected at all.
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.
Well if a charger is broken, it makes no sense to reserve the space for charging. A sidewalk analogy would be whether a sidewalk is "broken". If 50 feet, or 200 feet of the sidewalk was missing, people would consider parking there.
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".
I've seen chargers being left broken for over a year. In the meantime, there was no way to tell whether they'll ever be back online.
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.
That's ambiguous because users don't know if the case of a broken charger was considered or not, or whether repair is even scheduled.
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.
I precisely explained why it's ambiguous. Everything is based on the assumption of a functioning charger. Without that, everything falls apart, the sign, everything.
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.
I'm asking for opinions, not playground insults. You're ok with parking twice if a charger is broken and that's fine with me. I don't think that wasted time should be on you (and everyone else later that day, week, month, etc.), and I don't think a prime parking space should be left unusable indefinitely. But you do you.