A recently opened electric vehicle charging station is creating congestion inside a busy Pelham Gardens shopping plaza, leaving drivers waiting in long lines and neighbors frustrated.<\/p>\n
The charging station, located along Gun Hill Road, opened about three weeks ago and has quickly become a hotspot for electric vehicle drivers\u2014many of them taxi drivers\u2014looking to recharge before heading back out on their routes.<\/p>\n
But with wait times stretching to around 30 minutes to a hour, lines of cars are now backing up throughout the shopping plaza, snarling traffic and impacting nearby businesses.<\/p>\n
Drivers say they understand the frustration from residents but argue there simply aren\u2019t enough charging options across the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t have as many options for Tesla chargers,\u201d said Joe Ryan, an EV driver. \u201cSo, either you pay for parking in a garage or you need to come up here in the Bronx. They could use some more superchargers throughout the city and the boroughs around it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Security has since stepped in to help manage the congestion, ensuring access remains clear\u2014especially near the Dunkin\u2019 drive-through\u2014while attempting to ease traffic inside the plaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recently opened electric vehicle charging station is creating congestion inside a busy Pelham Gardens shopping plaza, leaving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,5258,5458,5456,9,24,63,11562,27699,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-102783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-electric-cars","10":"tag-electric-charging-station","11":"tag-electric-vehicles","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-pelham-gardens","16":"tag-tesla","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","19":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}