timhebb
Well-known member
DWP has about a dozen L2 charging stations in their downtown facility parking lot at First & Hope Street that are available to the public at no cost simply by driving up to Gate 6 on Hope St. and asking the security officer permission to enter and charge.
Until recently, the gatekeepers have granted admission from early morning until late at night seven days a week, with the caveat that EVs must exit the lot by midnight. But last week, security guards began to advise EV drivers that they must leave the property by 7pm, and will be allowed to enter no later than 5pm Monday through Friday - weekend entry no longer permitted. DWP's community relations line (213-367-1361) explains that this is not a new policy, but rather that existing policy is now being enforced, and that vehicles will be ticketed for violations starting April 1st.
Either way, this turn of events is not, in my view, consistent with DWP's otherwise commendable record of EV promotion and incentives. The policy also includes a four-hour maximum parking restriction, the one welcome and sensible change it brings (EV drivers did hog L2 parking spaces all day in many cases).
If these day and time policy restrictions impact you, please join me in contacting one or both of the LADWP personnel below, whose positions are relevant, and make your voice heard. You can call the number in bold above, but I believe you can get closer to the source by emailing DWP's Scott Briasco, Manager of Fleet Environmental Compliance and Electric Transportation at [email protected]. And/or the General Manager of LADWP, Ron Nichols, at [email protected].
Until recently, the gatekeepers have granted admission from early morning until late at night seven days a week, with the caveat that EVs must exit the lot by midnight. But last week, security guards began to advise EV drivers that they must leave the property by 7pm, and will be allowed to enter no later than 5pm Monday through Friday - weekend entry no longer permitted. DWP's community relations line (213-367-1361) explains that this is not a new policy, but rather that existing policy is now being enforced, and that vehicles will be ticketed for violations starting April 1st.
Either way, this turn of events is not, in my view, consistent with DWP's otherwise commendable record of EV promotion and incentives. The policy also includes a four-hour maximum parking restriction, the one welcome and sensible change it brings (EV drivers did hog L2 parking spaces all day in many cases).
If these day and time policy restrictions impact you, please join me in contacting one or both of the LADWP personnel below, whose positions are relevant, and make your voice heard. You can call the number in bold above, but I believe you can get closer to the source by emailing DWP's Scott Briasco, Manager of Fleet Environmental Compliance and Electric Transportation at [email protected]. And/or the General Manager of LADWP, Ron Nichols, at [email protected].