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?
I’d never heard a spot could become reserved for a technician. It makes sense but that kind of rule would need a lot of signage and public communication.
I think the rule should be “the technician can park in the spot. If someone parked there, the technician double parks and blocks them in until the repair is done”.
Not a bad idea except I think they’d block traffic. I think the technician is simply another worker trying to park on the street to do his job like anyone else trying to park. No one seems to know yet if they actually need to plug the cable anywhere.
If word gets around that EV parking spots are free for everyone when the charger is broken, chargers will suddenly become a lot more prone to breaking.
That’s vandalism.
Yes, so they shouldn’t create a strong incentive for it. People tend to break or ignore laws that they feel the majority doesn’t like (see speed limits and minor tax/insurance fraud)
Disability parking spaces are respected despite no vandalism required.
You can’t really “break” a disability spot and leave it “open to everyone” in the same way as an electric charger
Seems like it should be for the repair tech to do their job. But what if it’s after normal work hours? Are these technicians expected to work 24 hours a day? In my town, after 6pm, and or on weekends, or when the shop is closed all that restricted parking becomes available for general use, mostly. Of course I ride a bike, even in the Winter, so there’s always some place I can lock up. And when people ask me where to park, I have to shrug and say I don’t really know.
German here: All public charging stations are labeled as: free parking during charging. That means if the charger is broken technically no one is allowed to park there.
A reserved spot for an EV does not change when the charger is inop.
