Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
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Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
#2If true, it's extremely depressing that it required a viral post on social media.
Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
#3If true, it's extremely depressing that it required a viral post on social media.
How is crisis management supposed to go? What would have been a preferable source of this change?
Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
#4Zoning laws prevent stacking containers more than 2 high. FFS.
Zoning as practiced in the US may be the most pervasive, banal evil in the country. It kills our GDP[1], is a major driver of racial inequity[2], increases wealth inequality[3], and creates car-dependency which has horrible public health impacts[4].
Yet somehow nearly no one in America is aware of this or concerned about it. I wish I understood why that is.
But I’m not surprised to learn that LA area land use regulation is a major contributor to the dysfunction at the port.
1. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20170388
2. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/9/18/the-local-case...
Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
#5If true, it's extremely depressing that it required a viral post on social media.
How is crisis management supposed to go? What would have been a preferable source of this change?
If it was a high leverage decision, you would have hoped one of the officials appointed to fix the situation would have already noticed and fixed it. So either they are completely incompetent or the decision didn't matter much.
Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
#6If true, it's extremely depressing that it required a viral post on social media.
Or maybe it’s a success of social media?
If we didn’t have social media cutting across the usual lines of communication, this problem may not have gotten fixed because no one had both the right information and the ability to act in it.
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#7Wrong move. The container problem is way more of an effective tariff on China than anything else we could think of.
The best part is every container impounded in the US is a drain on destinations that aren’t in the US like Europe.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is crisis management supposed to go? What would have been a preferable source of this change?
If it was a high leverage decision, you would have hoped one of the officials appointed to fix the situation would have already noticed and fixed it. So either they are completely incompetent or the decision didn't matter much.
Ideally, yes. But that assumes people are looking into the right places at the right time, with the knowledge to understand what they are looking at. That’s a pretty tall order for any large system.
Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
#9Zoning laws prevent stacking containers more than 2 high. FFS. Zoning as practiced in the US may be the most pervasive, banal evil in the country. It kills our GDP[1], is a major driver of racial inequity[2], increases wealth inequality[3], and creates car-dependency which has horrible public health impacts[4]. Yet somehow nearly no one in America is aware of this or concerned about it. I wish I understood why that i…
Arcane zoning rules are absolutely strangling society.
Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
#10Wrong move. The container problem is way more of an effective tariff on China than anything else we could think of. The best part is every container impounded in the US is a drain on destinations that aren’t in the US like Europe.
Well now you can stack even more containers in Long Beach. Just sitting there. Doing nothing.