Udo
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CORRIDOR 2000 UPDATE
This is the area that traverses from OTAY Mesa to Fox Studios in South Rosarito Beach.
The corridor 2000 is finally getting repaired! There are several one lane areas where MEXTRANS has cut open the cracked concrete and is preparing to
re-concrete them. Hopefully with a stronger mix because the trucks keep breaking much of the roadway.
There are about 10 open pits on both sides of the highway.
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Udo
The corridor 2000 is finally getting repaired! There are several one lane areas where MEXTRANS has cut open the cracked concrete and is preparing to
re-concrete them. Hopefully with a stronger mix because the trucks keep breaking much of the roadway.
There are about 10 open pits on both sides of the highway. |
This is great news considering the roadway was built new LESS than 5 years ago. Unfrigginbelievble. 
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Baja Guy Also Posted an Update
For those of you who missed it:
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=56758
Right now, it seems that there will be a toll booth transiting the toll road from the south to Blvd. 2000.
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Mengano
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The roadways breakup so fast because the Mexican truckers routinely run their trucks over the maximum legal weight. It's cheaper to payoff a cop with
100 pesos than to have to use two trucks to deliver a load.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
| Quote: | Originally posted by Udo
The corridor 2000 is finally getting repaired! There are several one lane areas where MEXTRANS has cut open the cracked concrete and is preparing to
re-concrete them. Hopefully with a stronger mix because the trucks keep breaking much of the roadway.
There are about 10 open pits on both sides of the highway. |
This is great news considering the roadway was built new LESS than 5 years ago. Unfrigginbelievble. |
MAYBEE, That road is built on a very unstabel base and will always be a problem there is nothing they can put there that will stay.
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bajaguy
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It's the road base
| Quote: | Originally posted by Mengano
The roadways breakup so fast because the Mexican truckers routinely run their trucks over the maximum legal weight. It's cheaper to payoff a cop with
100 pesos than to have to use two trucks to deliver a load. |
You can tell by the stress fractures and the subsidence areas that the problem is the road base is not properly prepared in certain spots......no
inspections or quality control
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Mengano
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In Texas, trucks and their cargo can weigh no more than 80,000 pounds. In Mexico, trucks and their cargo can weigh up to 100,000 pounds, and that
limit is enforced sporadically. Texas state inspectors have routinely found Mexican trucks on Texas highways weighing more than 120,000 pounds, and
once discovered a Mexican truck weighing over 130,000 pounds. (Mark Langford, "Nugent: Mexican Trucks Breaking State Law," UPI, Oct. 28, 1997.)
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http://www.citizen.org/trade/article_redirect.cfm?ID=4336
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J.P.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mengano
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In Texas, trucks and their cargo can weigh no more than 80,000 pounds. In Mexico, trucks and their cargo can weigh up to 100,000 pounds, and that
limit is enforced sporadically. Texas state inspectors have routinely found Mexican trucks on Texas highways weighing more than 120,000 pounds, and
once discovered a Mexican truck weighing over 130,000 pounds. (Mark Langford, "Nugent: Mexican Trucks Breaking State Law," UPI, Oct. 28, 1997.)
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Yeah, once long ago they caught us moving a portable workover rig up in Conroe Tex. We spent over a Week dissambeling the thing at the scale house
before any of it could be moved.
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The road between Maneadaro and La Buffadora has zero base is routinely used by trucks/ trailers exceeding 80k lbs, not to mention the dozens of tour
buses that also help destroy it. I have seen better looking minefields
Bob Durrell
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J.P.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
The road between Maneadaro and La Buffadora has zero base is routinely used by trucks/ trailers exceeding 80k lbs, not to mention the dozens of tour
buses that also help destroy it. I have seen better looking minefields
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went to Ensenada yestreday WOW they removed most of the TOPES on the La BUFADORA Super Highway
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| Quote: | Originally posted by J.P.
went to Ensenada yestreday WOW they removed most of the TOPES on the La BUFADORA Super Highway
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Yeah...I wish they hadn't done that. Now the road will return to being a drag strip....or, it will when they fill the pot holes. Maybe the craters
arn't such a bad thing after all.
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J.P.
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The reason they put them there in the first place was to slow the norte americans down, maybee they think most of them starved out.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Yeah...I wish they hadn't done that. Now the road will return to being a drag strip....or, it will when they fill the pot holes. Maybe the craters
arn't such a bad thing after all. |
Instead of filling them in they are adding new ones:
Bob Durrell
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David K
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There is a Road Conditions Forum here at Baja Nomad... just fyi 
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