He asked his administration to come up with port and transportation improvements that could be included in the next state budget, which he will introduce in January.Ī coalition of business groups including retailers, truckers, grocers and others said Wednesday that Newsom’s order doesn’t go far enough. Newsom’s order also directed the state’s transportation agency to look for freight routes where vehicle weight limits can be exempt to help with the movement of goods. Mayor Libby Schaaf told KRON-TV on Wednesday that her city’s port “has unused capacity right now” and Oakland can “take some of those ships off your hands, L.A.” More relief could come by diverting cargo ship traffic to the Port of Oakland. But if you could pull together 10 or 12 lots, and put 40 containers on each of them, that’s 500 containers,” Haik said. The city has identified several port-owned plots that could be quickly paved and transformed into storage sites if not for existing red tape, he said. Newsom’s order is a start, Haik said, but he urged the governor to also allow cities to make it easier to change zoning rules. He also ordered the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development to examine other properties not owed by the state, such as private or locally owned parcels, that could also be used for storage, though he didn’t give a timeline for that review. Newsom, a Democrat, asked the state’s Department of General Services to review potential sites by Dec. He directed California government agencies to look for state-owned properties that could temporarily store goods coming into the ports. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday issued an executive order that aims to ease the backlog. “I’m literally out on the streets directing traffic.”Ĭalifornia Gov.
We’re just trying to get these truckers in and out,” she said Wednesday. Maria Arrieran, who owns the UCTI Trucking Company along with her husband, Frank, said she sympathizes with the community, but the truck traffic is a result of limited container storage. “It’s a bunch of neighbors that are very upset because it’s a non-stop situation,” Cervantes told CBS LA.
Her whole block is fed up with the traffic, she said. Wilmington resident Sonia Cervantes said her driveway was blocked by a truck as she tried to leave for work at 6:30 a.m. On Monday, the number of ships waiting to enter the ports hit a record 100. Treasury wants more oversight of all-cash real estate dealsĪs of Tuesday, there were 63 ships berthed at the two ports and 96 waiting to dock and unload, according to the Marine Exchange of Southern California that oversees port vessel traffic.
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