Not exciting that the main port for X-wing goodness has suffered another issue
*sigh* I wish they would ship the FFG items to FL and bring them up that way.
Shipping Delayed
100 miles of drive time on a truck doing 50 is 2 added hours, now with drive time limits for truckers this MIGHT add 1 day to travel time. This is not something we should be worried about
Is it even close? Last time I checked, boats don't use bridges.
There is only 1 highway between California and the rest of the U.S.?
Could've fooled me.
There's a price to be paid when you overestimate infrastructure and underestimate an altered atmosphere, but I really doubt this will affect our spaceship toy deliveries very much.
Meh. We can't have our toy plastic spaceships as fast. Maybe. There's bigger things to worry about.
Edited by SlugrageMeh. We can't have our toy plastic spaceships as fast. Maybe. There's bigger things to worry about.
I did read the article; I was more replying to the thread title and implied sense of general doom & gloom for the Raider.
Though if it's the vessel we think it is, shouldn't it just be able to fly over the gap created by the lack of bridge?
There is only 1 highway between California and the rest of the U.S.?
Could've fooled me.
It's just that not all roads/bridges can handle large truck traffic. I heard in an NPR article that the nearest suitable bridge is 300 miles away. When you consider that the eastern border of CA is roughly 800 miles long and mostly borders against desert, you can see the issue.
The shipments from China usually come into Oakland and Long Beach. If they ground ship out of Oakland, then they would take I80 east and branch off north and south as needed. I don't think that I10 and I15 being shut down for a while will delay shipments for very long.
Meh. We can't have our toy plastic spaceships as fast. Maybe. There's bigger things to worry about.
What could possibly be more important to worry about than our toy space ships....
I can't think of one single thing
Do big shipments not travel by train out from the ports?
Do big shipments not travel by train out from the ports?
My thought exactly. At least, travel part of the way by train.
I think the real solution is for ffg to ship things by hovercraft so the thing can travel from China to distribution centers without stopping.
Bridges are collapsing. Meanwhile, Congress has taken 7 years to approve a highway funding transportation bill, because they don't want to raise taxes to the level said taxes were at 20 years ago.
*sigh* this is why we- literally- cannot have nice things.