Originally posted by fdt
| Quote: | Originally posted by surfer jim
FDT......is there a FM or AM station that gives good border reports? I never have been able to find any.....but maybe they are in Spanish?
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As Hook said, AM 600 has a good report but it's only in the mornings and evening rush hours when Cal Walker is up in the helicopter, and I say this
because I've seen the helicopter hover over the border in the mornings and afternons, as for other times of day they would be one of the most
"inacurate" because they are getting theire info from the SYS border crossing hotline that DanO is telling us about, I am right now at 5:32PM calling
an theire recording sais 3PM. The most accurate on radio is 106.5FM that has two persons reporting live at both borders one @ SYS and one in OTY
reporting every 15 minutes between 6AM and 10PM but it's in spanish. The best source we use is Telnor@ 700-7000 on the phone also live every 15
minutes. Another reliable method we use is http://www.tijuana.gob.mx/garita/
and click on any image, that is updated every 30 seconds.
In any case the by time reporting method has been obsolete in Tijuana, Tecate and Mexicali since after 9/11, now the most accurate is by number of
vehicles. If you have ever in your life crossed the border even once, you have seen for yourself that one lane could have a p..che emigrante that is
searching every car taking between 3-5 minutes per vehicle and the next lane has a emigrante that is just waving people thru thus making the time
forecasting or predicting very inacurate. I know that it might be hard for some of you to listen to a radio report about the border wait in spanish,
but they report like this:
Lado izquierdo (left side) 250 automoviles (250 cars), derecho 100( right 100) Padre Kino 160 ( no translation needed). In that scenario I would take
Lado Izquierdo (left side). Why? because even though the left has 250 cars, it opens up to 12 lanes from an original 4 making that like a 30 to 45
minute wait, the right side is what used to be car pool (non existant for many years now) but staying at 3-4 lanes all the way making those 100 like a
one hour or more wait and finaly Padre Kino with 160 cars should be also like one hour because if the 4 sentri lanes do'nt have too much traffic it
opens up from 2 to 5 or 7 lanes.
It's confusing but you can get used to it, today I left home in Tijuana @ 6:15 AM, there was a 450 car wait on the left side and I arrived @ Kearny
Mesa @ 7:48AM, traveling on the 805 morning rush hour traffic, not bad compared to a friend from Temecula that takes about the same time to get to
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