WAF Wrote:
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> DougSam Wrote:
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> [up150.com]
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> > -in-san-francisco
> >
> > It's interesting that the freight business in
> SAn
> > Francisco could go from what's described here
> to
> > hardly anything. Obviously it wasn't simply a
> > matter of business drying up but SP choosing to
> > get out of the business and driving away
> customers
> > by discarding infrastructure and driving up
> > prices.
> >
> > Considering how quickly the traffic contracted
> in
> > the late 70s to early 80s it's amazing there is
> > still a local working SF. I suppose this is
> due
> > entirely to the dirty dirt business and before
> > that the container port business? And yet it
> > appears that even this business wanes at times
> to
> > hardly anything and you'd think UP would just
> as
> > soon give it up.
>
> No quite. Business left the Bay Area for other
> reasons than the SP. Economy, taxes,
> you name it. If anything, rates went down after
> Staggers on some traffic. JIT inventory ended the
> need for warehousing so far away from the plants.
> Businesses closed plants on the west coast for
> cheaper labor in the Midwest

Feinstein did a good job ridding industrial bussiness out of SF during her tenure as mayor