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?
“no one parks there until the charger is fixed”
I disagree. That is a waste of valuable space (real estate). If a driver has to park to read a sign (or figure out whether a station is broken), that is ridiculous. Ticketing officers can easily tell if non-activation is due to the station owner or the driver. If a transaction is the condition for parking, and the station owner cannot complete the transaction, the driver cannot be penalized for that failed transaction.
If I park in a bakery parking lot “for customers only” and go in to buy a loaf of bread, the baker can’t refuse the transaction because his oven is broken, and penalize me instead for parking without buying bread. The driver is not responsible whatsoever for the baker’s broken oven and it would be ridiculous for the baker to penalize him for parking with intent to be customer.
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.
If the space is reserved for customers, and customers cannot exist because of the malfunction, the space is reserved for no one and therefore not reserved at all.