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David K
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We used the carpool lane (in Mexico near the border northbound), because it is the far right lane and moved faster (slightly). Otherwise the next most
righthand lane is used...
Keeping to the right has been the wisest position in my experience... both in politics and border lines!
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surfer jim
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I may hire a COYOTE to help me get across.....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
We used the carpool lane (in Mexico near the border northbound), because it is the far right lane and moved faster (slightly).
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David, Ferna has been trying to tell you that what you call the "carpool" lane is no longer the far right lane.
The "3 or more" lanes have been moved further right and adjacent to the SENTRI lanes. Now they can only be accessed from the 'via rapida' Westbound.
You have to cross the river then head back West.
[Edited on 5-19-2006 by Dave]
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David K
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Dave, thanks... so this is since the Pyramid event (because the same carpool lane was there that night)?
Ferna, when you say "U.S. carpool lanes" you are speaking about the lanes leading to the gates marked for carpools approaching from Mexico (before
officially entering the USA, but after crossing the raised bumps which are the physical border line...
Once we are that close to the border, it really doesn't matter... It's the faster lane we want to get to the border when the wait has you backed up on
the bridge over the river, and that has typically been the FAR RIGHT LANE (which happens to have been the one designated for carpools of 3 or more
Mon.-Fri. to 10 pm). If you were not a carpool, the the next closest RIGHT lane was best.
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I'm confused also, in March there was a sign "car pool" 3 riders , as David said, on the far right, it was barricated, I go in and soared past
hundreds of cars, as I said before, it took me into a lane behind all the vendor shops, once clearing that it opens up to all the gates, including
some called "car pool" Is that no longer the case? When did it change?
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jim-
forget you know anything (about the signs, that is!) and just pick a lane. but make sure you pick a GOOD one or you'll be cursing up a storm when all
the others are moving whilst you sit.....
we use to get into the first lane on the round-about ramp that turn right up hill and drops into the border lines. there is a sign that says "colonia
something or other" and while you think you're going to get lost in the colonia it allows for access to the "car pool lanes".
most days it doesn't really matter because that lane is a single lane for a long way, where the rest of the ramp is opening up into multiple lanes
often.
[Edited on 5-19-2006 by woody in ob]
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No carpool lanes
As of today, do not take the carpool lanes because they have moved the barricades and the lane now only leads to Colonia Federal it does not go to the
US
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