With today’s tech, can’t we just cut right through

LOL WUT?

Go to Google Maps, ask for Panama Canal, then hit the "Terrain" option to the right of the satellite icon in lower left.

Setting aside environmental considerations (critters are doubtless hitching rides on the hulls of the ships), there are massive mountains pretty much everywhere. Those mountains aren't stable and you take many tons off, and some faults may start sliding.

Locals may not want to be displaced, mountains in national parks are not going to be deforested without environmentalists' blessings. Illegal aliens would even look fondly back on the days when the Darien Pass was the problem with their trek from Colombia.

I hope this is not the kind of logic you apply to all of your opinions.

There are plenty of options:

A Panamax port is a deepwater port that can accommodate a fully laden Panamax ship.

Pacific Ocean[edit]
Port of Seattle

Port of Tacoma

Port Madison — sometimes called Port Madison Bay, a deepwater bay located on Puget Sound.

Port Angeles

Port of Grays Harbor

Port of Longview

Port of Kalama

Port of Vancouver USA

Port of Portland — three post-Panamax terminals.

Port of Coos Bay — Oregon's second busiest seaport

Port of Humboldt Bay — (aka Port of Eureka) the only deepwater port in California north of San Francisco Bay

Port of Richmond

Port of Stockton — California's farthest-inland deepwater port.

Port of Oakland — channel is fifty feet deep and eight hundred feet wide.

Port of Redwood City — resulting from dredging the mouth of Redwood Creek

Port of Hueneme — only deepwater port between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the only military deepwater port between San Diego Bay and Puget Sound

Port of Los Angeles — busiest port in the United States.
Port of Long Beach — one of the busiest container ports in the world.
Port of San Diego — home to the bulk of the United States Navy Pacific Carrier Fleet. Only the first nine miles (14 km) of the bay are accessible to Panamax vessels.

the length of time i had to sit at a railroad crossing the other day tells me that someone, somewhere is off loading these containers....

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With today’s tech, can’t we just cut right through by sumtimeitbeslikedat

the Panama Canal? Like do away with the locks, cut straight through to make it much faster, and widen the canal. This would allow us to get goods way faster and circumvent those stupid Californians.

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Biden, is that you?

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With today’s tech, can’t we just cut right through by sumtimeitbeslikedat
the Panama Canal? Like do away with the locks, cut straight through to make it much faster, and widen the canal. This would allow us to get goods way faster and circumvent those stupid Californians. Somebody tell me why this wouldn’t work? I mean, there are countries in the island-building business. Seems like we could cut a darn good ditch at least…

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Jesus Christ. It's like Biden and Trump came up with this plan together and then had George w explain it to us.

Waiting time WITHOUT a reservation is about 5 or 6 days.

The issue is where they are coming from...China. To take a container ship down to Panama then back up to the states through the Gulf to NO and THEN put it on haulers and then trains would be a considerable cost and much longer. They will get the mess on the west coast straightened out.

It is amazing our build back better 4 trillion budget has nothing to upgrade the cranes at the cali ports, lest it offend the unions.