15 Replies to "FOLLOWUP: Morgan Junction EV charging lot completion date slides yet again"

• Mr J April 3, 2025 (2:32 pm)

  Disappointing that the City, County and State made all these grand plans for EV’s but has failed to install and maintain many of them. 

• North Admiral Cyclist April 3, 2025 (3:01 pm)

  Do we know if the delays will accommodate the update of the charging infrastructure to be NACS (North American Charging Standard (aka Tesla)), and not the soon to be defunct J-1772?

  • Aaron April 3, 2025 (4:13 pm)

    One of the updates before suggested  it would be 50-50 NACS. 

    • North Admiral Cyclist April 4, 2025 (4:37 am)

      Thanks, a 50/50 split between NACS and J-1772 chargers seems like a good compromise.  

• Aaron April 3, 2025 (3:15 pm)

  March 2022: EV charging station proposed

  https://westseattleblog.com/2022/03/another-electric-vehicle-charging-station-proposed-for-west-seattle/
  Notional launch date: March 2023
  "Construction could begin as soon as the 4th quarter of 2022. The project will take approximately three months to complete."

  September 2022: Plan finalized, first phase of work starting

  https://westseattleblog.com/2022/09/followup-first-phase-of-work-soon-to-start-at-future-electric-vehicle-charging-site-in-morgan-junction/
  Notional launch date: September 2023
  "But even though the site prep is being done now, according to Strang, actual construction of the charging station isn’t expected before the middle of next year

  January 2024: Plan at 90% design

  https://westseattleblog.com/2024/01/new-crosswalk-park-all-wheels-plan-ev-charging-lot-update-more-morgan-community-associations-first-2024-meeting/
  Notional launch date: December 2024
  "[At] 90% design, environmental cleanup is complete, and they’ve applied for construction permits. But it won’t be built until the last quarter of the year because they had to switch what kind of charging stations they’re going to use, and the new equipment 'has a very long lead time.'"

  October 2024: 8 EV chargers is "ambitous"

  https://westseattleblog.com/2024/10/followup-morgan-junction-ev-charging-lot-schedule-sliding/
  Notional launch date: 🤷‍♂️
  "Morgan Junction is our largest and most ambitious EV-charging station project to date requiring more time, engineering, and permitting than one of our more typical EV charging station projects. We’ve also experienced significant delays with procurement of the chargers and other electric service equipment." (author's note: this is a tiny parking lot slated to have 8 EV chargers.)

  April 2025: Accelerated timetable

  https://westseattleblog.com/2025/04/followup-morgan-junction-ev-charging-lot-completion-date-slides-yet-again/
  Notional launch date: April 2026
  "Another new date for completion of the Morgan Junction EV-charging lot between Fauntleroy Way and SW Morgan, north of 42nd. This time it comes from District 1 City Councilmember Rob Saka, who says City Light is now projecting the long-planned eight-charger lot will be open for use in April of next year – still a year away. While his newsletter – and the City Light memo it links to – describe this as an 'acceleration,' it is not."

  • Gibby April 4, 2025 (11:15 am)

    This is hilarious. 3+ years to get chargers installed on a parking lot 🤣

• Deb Barker April 3, 2025 (4:22 pm)

  FYI – The Morgan Junction City Light EV team will Zoom into the April 16th meeting of the Morgan Community Association (MoCA). It’s a hybrid  meeting from 7 to 9pm:  In-Person at the West Seattle Church of the Nazarene, 4201 SW Juneau St. and Online via Zoom. City Light will present in the first 30 minutes. Meeting agendas will be available next week  – go to https://www.morganjunction.org/ Deb from MoCA. 

• anonyme April 3, 2025 (4:37 pm)

  Do these brain dead scammers even understand what the word “acceleration” means?  Obviously, they think we’re all stupid enough to just swallow whichever words they throw at the wall.   These statements are completely contradictory and impossible as stated.  It’s time for an investigation as to where the money has been going.

• David April 3, 2025 (7:28 pm)

  Why are they bothering?  If City Light can’t do this, someone else will  It’s only a couple plugs.  I have two EVs (old VW ID.4 and a new Cadillac Optiq).  I love EVs!  Best cars I’ve ever owned.  Can’t imagine going back to antique expensive gas cars. But this is silly.  Most chargers nationwide are  privately done (not Federal/State/utility).  I mean we have Electrify America (biggest network), Tesla, ChargePoint, Blink, EvGo, and now the cool one, Ionna (backed by Mercedes, BMW, GM, Stellantis, Honda, Hyundai, and Kia) is rolling with with “chargeries” that have charging, food, restrooms, etc. Walmart is starting their own charging network. Pilot Flying J is installing chargers at their truck stops.  If there’s a need, someone will build it.

  • CAM April 3, 2025 (11:47 pm)

    How do you explain the charging desert that West Seattle is then? Most of the privately owned chargers go down for months at a time or are just never repaired. In most cases I drive out of West Seattle to charge which is a massive pain and having a local charging spot with multiple chargers available 24/7 would be much better. The only problem with the SCL concept for this lot is that they insist on hiding it from the street by putting in trees surrounding the lot so that visibility into the lot is poor. That’s a safety issue for some of us who choose charging locations based not only on convenience but feeling safe walking in and out. 

    • WS Res April 4, 2025 (1:20 am)

      I’ve emailed WSB a few times to ask who is responsible for the damaged chargers in the Whole Foods garage that have been out of service since I moved to WS in June 2021, but haven’t heard back. I’m guessing it’s whoever owns and “maintains” (sarcasm) the building, which I see in many cases is essentially an excuse by the charging network to leave charge points unserviced for years at a time.

      • WSB April 4, 2025 (2:00 am)

        I searched the mailbox and found an unanswered email from December. Forgive me, but back then, less than two months after my world changed, I was still barely getting by with the daily responsibilities of keeping the news going, so I probably neglected to reply to more than one “hey, do you know …” emails, which we otherwise routinely answer often. That said, I don’t know the answer, and I would just point you to whomever is managing The Whittaker (the complex hosting Whole Foods and the apartments) these days, sorry – TR

      • 22blades April 4, 2025 (4:00 am)

        Easy there…

• DC April 4, 2025 (11:02 am)

  Rob can’t help but lie to and demean his constituents. Seriously, he thinks we all are stupid. 

• Derek April 4, 2025 (5:37 pm)

  It’s probably good they delayed this. SCL’s EV charging strategy could use a reevaluation. As an EV owner, fast charging has its place on major highways and travel corridors, but outside of that it’s not that useful, around town and in the city I just want a place to park and charge conveniently at cheap home electrical prices. The convenience of EVs is that you can power them up while they’re parked. As designed this will be underutilized, like much of SCL EV infrastructure, because it’s both expensive and inconvenient to charge this way. We need more inexpensive park and charge hookups, in garages and in parking strips, where people already park, simple 50 amp 240v RV style plugs are probably best, if SCL sold this lot and used the money to install a whole bunch of 50amp chargers in convenient parking locations, we’d all be better off.

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