I agree with you, but this isn't necessarily the best example. In this case, fra...

myself248 · on Oct 24, 2021

Those 2-high zoning laws aren't new, are they?

Presumably the port would've architected its systems to work within all sorts of constraints, come they from physics, or business, or regulation. The fact that one of them can easily be relaxed is immaterial to their failure to account for it in the first place.

smileysteve · on Oct 24, 2021

Presumably, the regulation had reasoning. Likely unsightfulness. But also likely danger.

Will the port's insurer cover damages when a 3 or 4 high stack falls?

booleangate · on Oct 24, 2021

Unsightliness maybe, but also California is no stranger to earthquakes. Stacking up to 6 high sounds like a deadly and expensive game of dominos.

KptMarchewa · on Oct 25, 2021

They can be stacked higher on a container ship when full. And ships are subjected to what someone could think of as a "quake" - waves.

eecc · on Oct 25, 2021

for sure, but the harmonic characteristics of sea waves are rather different.

But yeah, you do have a point.

eecc · on Oct 24, 2021

Sure, although most of the measures proposed are about a massive mobilization subsidized by government.

One could also argue that it’s still a brittle, overly lean organization if a landscape regulation tipped it into service disruption.

empthought · on Oct 24, 2021

It was the international demand imbalance that tipped it into service disruption; the landscape regulation just set the conditions for the existing bottleneck.