Gypsy Jan - 8-22-2006 at 09:51 PM
The morning, we were going to Tijuana airport to pick up visitors and decided to take a chance on finding the western access to the new road.
Yeaaahahh! What a great ride, the temporary (it looks like) on-ramp road leads to a fabulous, fast and smooth, four-line divided highway that winds
through the valleys east of TJ's main metropolitan area.
We traveled fast through a landscape of gentle, brown, grass-covered rolling hills with scattered ranchos, with no stops or off-ramps except for dirt
roads connecting to the ranchos, but there are signs of maybe future pull-offs for gas, etc.
We encountered little-to-no traffic going north until we hit TJ proper.
At a guess, this new road adds miles to your journey to TJ, but cuts time by one-third, maybe more.
The downside is that on the TJ end, the ramp connecting to the road to the airport and the Otay border crossing was closed due to construction, which
entailed a many minute detour down and around through heavy TJ metro traffic in order to maneuver back onto the correct road. There's probably a
great shortcut to circumvent this, but we didn't find it today.
All-in-all, this is a new development to ease your way through the urban congestion, that is, until the urban sprawl sprawls out around the new road,
so enjoy it while you can.