gsbotanico
Nomad
Posts: 209
Registered: 7-28-2015
Location: Cardiff by the Sea, CA
Member Is Offline
|
|
Ramp open
I drove down to Baja this morning and crossed at San Ysidro around 5:45 am. Very light traffic, but was pointed into secondary. Agent was very
polite and opened the back for a quick look. The first exit ramp for the Internacional was open. Barriers are down, yet the eletronic sign with the
detour is still there.
I always use the old highway to go south. I hit one green light after another. From Mexican Customs to the point where the Libramiento crosses the
highway and just before the turnoff for La Gloria I hit two red lights. From La Gloria to the junction with the toll road I hit 3 red lights. I
think this was some kind of record for me. The awkward U-turn to get onto the toll road going south is still there. I can see now where work is
being done for the new ramp, which will exit to the right.
Returning to the US around 5 pm I checked the wait times at the border on a Mexican site. It said 20 minutes for Sentri at San Ysidro and 10 minutes
at Otay. I choose to take the Blvd. 2000 to Otay. There was normal congestion in the area on Bellas Artes. The wait time was 10 mnutes. Traffic
was light on 805 north bound and free flowing at the merge. It turned out to be much easier than I feared.
|
|
|
BooJumMan
Senior Nomad
Posts: 875
Registered: 8-11-2007
Location: San Diego
Member Is Offline
|
|
Crossed at SY today at 5:15pm, took me 50 minutes in SENTRI. Pretty congested overall.
In that pre-Google Earth and social media epoch, The Code was adhered to. It was based on a simple verity: if a locale had been transformational for
you, and you had put the hard yards in to get there and to learn it, to know it, why in god�s name would you broadcast the news, thus ruining the
future experience not only for yourself, but for future adventurers?
|
|
|
del mar
Banned
Posts: 1057
Registered: 7-23-2016
Location: the cantina of course
Member Is Offline
Mood: lil' fuzzy
|
|
Quote: Originally posted by gsbotanico  | I drove down to Baja this morning and crossed at San Ysidro around 5:45 am. Very light traffic, but was pointed into secondary. Agent was very
polite and opened the back for a quick look. The first exit ramp for the Internacional was open. Barriers are down, yet the eletronic sign with the
detour is still there.
I always use the old highway to go south. I hit one green light after another. From Mexican Customs to the point where the Libramiento crosses the
highway and just before the turnoff for La Gloria I hit two red lights. From La Gloria to the junction with the toll road I hit 3 red lights. I
think this was some kind of record for me. The awkward U-turn to get onto the toll road going south is still there. I can see now where work is
being done for the new ramp, which will exit to the right.
|
woohoo! the southbound ramp from the free road to the toll road is done, keep an eye open it sneaks up on you. no more u-turn! 
|
|
|
gsbotanico
Nomad
Posts: 209
Registered: 7-28-2015
Location: Cardiff by the Sea, CA
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by del mar |
woohoo! the southbound ramp from the free road to the toll road is done, keep an eye open it sneaks up on you. no more u-turn!
|
Yes, indeed! I took it last week. It has temporary guard rails on a very tight turn. I had to brake hard. Next time I will be taking it slower.
Nice to have a ramp going south to the right. I never liked the old ramp to the left.
|
|
|
BAJA.DESERT.RAT
Senior Nomad
Posts: 977
Registered: 11-5-2009
Location: BAJA SUR
Member Is Offline
|
|
Hola,
myself, my son and grandson are going south to fish in san quintin again.
can someone please give good instructions to the toll road from san ysidro to a navigationally impaired older nomad ?
would it be fairly well signed since june ?
if it's more confusing, we better cross south at tecate where we normally cross going north.
i thank you in advance,
BIEN SALUD, DA RAT
|
|
|
bajaric
Senior Nomad
Posts: 602
Registered: 2-2-2015
Member Is Offline
|
|
Hola Rat,
I crossed southbound at San Ysidro last Thursday with some trepidation because I have not gone that way for a few years and heard about detours, etc.
but it was easy. Big sweeping left turn approaching the new booths, all the lanes were open and the lights were turned off, after passing the booths
there is a well-signed ramp on the right that dumps you on to the same old highway along the border that goes west up and then down the hill towards
playas de Tijuana, right turn at the bottom of the hill, well-signed, easy peasy. I think one of the insurance companies (Bajabound?) has posted
pictures of the new crossing on their web site.
The toll road is in beautiful shape all the way to Ensenada.
|
|
|
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
