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.
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I see no reason why the parking space should be left unused. The whole purpose is to charge, not to remove parking spaces and be a nuisance.
As I said elsewhere, a crook who wants to park illegally has no reason to also damage the station. "I was allowed to park there because I broke the charger". Yeah sure cute.
It's the number that's bigger than any other.
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.
djt and maybe his crew said that, not me.
It's included as the third bullet point in the summary.
So what about when a charger is broken? What would you do if you parked to charge, get out to pay and plug, and you see the charger is broken? Do you stay to run your errands, or do leave to look for a new space? That's what I want to know.
Look, if someone wants to park in a charging space illegally, he doesn't have to break anything. But in my experience, there is less of that ("ICE-ing") than a few year ago.
Whether it "should" is irrelevant. It's always been multilingual, and expecting people to change is nonsense.
He'll make them do bad stuff and then throw them under the bus.
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.