People's Park has largely disappeared behind a wall of shipping containers. Now you might wonder where all these containers come from. Yours truly has no inside knowledge. But the imbalance of trade with China likely has something to do with it. Containers come into the ports with imports. But not so many are needed for exports. So, the extras either are sent back empty or pile up somewhere. In short, some clever person trying to design a wall for People's Park discovered there were lots of surplus containers needing a home.
Unless the trade deficit with China massively turns into a surplus, exactly what UC-Berkeley will do with its containers when the project ends is not clear. The next time the presidents of China and the US meet in San Francisco, they might want to hop across the Bay and resolve this problem. Just a thought...
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