Residents living next to the overloaded Los Angeles and Long Beach ports are not happy about the harbor’s plans to build a new container parking lot in their neighborhood, according to a local official. Wilmington has taken the brunt of increased truck traffic and containers this year, said Wilmington Neighborhood Council board member Valerie Contreras. “If you have trucks weighing 80,000 pounds going through here, where our children are playing, that’s a hazard,” Contreras said. “The port has to put these containers somewhere, but we’ve done our fair share.” Shipping containers are left on the streets where their children play, creating safety concerns, she said. One container also fell off the back of a semi-truck in October, crushing a parked passenger car. As the ports continue to deal with an overload of cargo during this year’s supply chain crisis, the Los Angeles Harbor Department has proposed building a new parking …
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