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surfer jim
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carpool lanes and trailer....border....
I will be returning from my next trip saturday night and wondering if I can use the carpool lanes at Tijuana with my trailer..( open trailer w/dune
buggy).......anybody know?
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Debra
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I don't remember the sign saying anything about trailers, but, remember that carpool lane requires 3 riders.
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comitan
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Jim
This is something that we don't want a lot of people to know, but the carpool lanes are no more only the signs are left the people that live in
Tijuana know!!!!
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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surfer jim
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I have seen the 3 people sign and wondered what they do when there are only 2 and you show up ...can't really make you turn around....
Who put up the "carpool" signs....U.S. or Mexico? ....and when did they stop using them?......seems if a U.S. sign we would have removed them.
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comitan
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Jim
Further in the carpool lane merges into the others!!!!!!!!
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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fdt
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Does'nt exist
| Quote: | Originally posted by surfer jim
Who put up the "carpool" signs....U.S. or Mexico? ....and when did they stop using them?......seems if a U.S. sign we would have removed them.
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The US started this and it was the center lanes at the SYS border crossing, yu clould acces them from anywere. This was late 80's early 90's. It was
enforced and you would get a ticket if you did'nt have 3 persons, the highway patrol would be waiting for you, but then the word spread amongst some
of us that one mexican man was sited and the judge dismissed his case. Turns out he showed up in court with his lawyer and theire argument was that
the mexican police officer was directing traffic in that direction and all he did was obey the law (in M?xico). other arguments were that because the
signs were only in english so if you did not read english and had mexican plates you would not get a ticket, because you were in M?xico when you
entered the lanes, Finaly I guess authorities from both sides got together to try to make it work and mexico put up those barriers and made Carril
para automoviles colectivos (the car pool lane) and added the car pool to the reglamento de transito, and that seemed to work for some time because
the mexican police were enforcing it, but you could still acces it from the right side and you would not get ticketed in the US. Recently the US moved
the signs that say carpool to the far right next to Sentri so there is again no car pool lane. It does not exist, has never worked. Out of curiosity
next time someone goes across, just ask the CBP officer and he or she will verify.
NOW PLEEEEEEASE DON'T RUIN THIS for us try to keep it a secret.
saludos
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bajaandy
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Jim,
When I came home last Sunday night, we used the carpool lanes and easily bypased 30 minutes of traffic. Upon approach to the checkpoint, the signs
clearly state CARPOOL MON. - FRI. 3 OR MORE. If you're comming back on Sat., shouldn't be a problem. I have pulled my buggy trailer thru in the
carpool lanes and I've never been re-directed or even spoken to about it.
subvert the dominant paradigm
"If you travel with a man, you must either fall out with him or make him your good friend."
JBL Noel
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Bob and Susan
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when you get there...where whould they send you???
End of the line????
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BornFisher
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But I have seen many times a TJ Policia making all without three people go back and re-enter the line. Trying to remember the last time I saw that,
may have been several months ago??
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David K
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Per the sign:
The carpool lane (for 3 or more) is active Mon. through Fri. to 10 pm (if you want to follow the rules).
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Debra
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What it does is puts you behind the main lanes......other side of the vendors, then it empties into all the gates. Saves HUGE TIME! Now please, do
as "fdt" asks, "Don't ruin it"
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Dave
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Thanks, Ferna
| Quote: | Originally posted by fdt
NOW PLEEEEEEASE DON'T RUIN THIS for us try to keep it a secret.
saludos |
During the Xmas holidays there was a TJ cop stationed at the entrance and was screening cars. I've also heard of cops using the lanes to extort money.
But:
FDT's right and it ain't no big secret anymore. Most of the time there isn't any advantage in using them. They are as crowded as the reg lanes.
There are only two ways to beat the border. SENTRI and a motorcycle.
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fdt
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaandy
Jim,
When I came home last Sunday night, we used the carpool lanes and easily bypased 30 minutes of traffic. Upon approach to the checkpoint, the signs
clearly state CARPOOL MON. - FRI. 3 OR MORE. |
Imposible, I cross almost every day, crossed Sunday and the signs are not there as I posted earlier, they have been moved to the far right lanes by
the sentri and it used to be 4 lanes for car pool now it's 3.
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fdt
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BornFisher
But I have seen many times a TJ Policia making all without three people go back and re-enter the line. Trying to remember the last time I saw that,
may have been several months ago?? |
Not anymore because there are no more car pool lanes there, they moved them to the right
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fdt
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Per the sign:
The carpool lane (for 3 or more) is active Mon. through Fri. to 10 pm (if you want to follow the rules). |
But ow do you access the carpool lanes from M?xico?
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David K
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I get in the far right lane where the border fence route meets the overpass where the wait usually begins... Use it a lot...
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bajaandy
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fdt,
Impossible that I came home on Sunday Night? Or Impossible that the signs are there? (They're still clearly posted over the lanes that are identified
as Carpool lanes, and yes, they are towards the right side of the entry, near the Sentri lanes.) Or are you refering to something else being
impossible?
| Quote: | Originally posted by fdt
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaandy
Jim,
When I came home last Sunday night, we used the carpool lanes and easily bypased 30 minutes of traffic. Upon approach to the checkpoint, the signs
clearly state CARPOOL MON. - FRI. 3 OR MORE. |
Imposible, I cross almost every day, crossed Sunday and the signs are not there as I posted earlier, they have been moved to the far right lanes by
the sentri and it used to be 4 lanes for car pool now it's 3. |
subvert the dominant paradigm
"If you travel with a man, you must either fall out with him or make him your good friend."
JBL Noel
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David K
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Somehow I think Ferna is thinking of something else... specially with this question he asked me, above: "But ow do you access the carpool lanes from
M?xico?"?
The signs are in the same place for a few years now... When I had both kids in the truck with me we always used it (one lane marked carpool).
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fdt
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Maybe I should have said practicaly imposible, unless there is no border wait. Because if both bajaandy and David K think they are accesing the car
pool lanes following the signs in M?xico on Calle Segunda (second street comming from Playas or downtown) on a day when the wait is long there is no
way you will get to the car pool lanes in the US. It used to be posible, but not anymore as I posted before, not if you use the barricated lane in
M?xico, because those lanes go to US entry lanes 9, 10, 11 and 12 that used to be carpool, now lanes 6, 7 and 8 say car pool and the mexican carpool
lanes do not lead to them. It's almost like when you enter into M?xico from the US in San Ysidro, if you are on hwy 5 on the fast lane, there are no
signs that say that that is a U-Turn only lane and you find out until you have to make the U-Turn.
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surfer jim
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Now I am cornfused ..........yes...no...maybe.....Please, I am just a surfer and
not able to follow directions very well......
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