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huesos
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Cross impossible
The Christmas shopping traffic is making a North bound crossing too much to deal with. Will this load drop off after Christmas or does it hold thru
the 1st?
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tjsue
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I'm told that it should die down after the first week in January.
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BajaBlanca
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Visit a doc or dentist and they can give you a pass which 4 days ago got us thru in record time, 15 minutes!
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tjsue
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If you're driving, and leave very early in the morning you can get across in about an hour. When I have to drive to San Diego, I leave between
4-4:30am. When I walk, I can leave later. Today I'm working the Chargers/Raiders game, so I'm crossing on foot and can leave later.
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dasubergeek
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I'll just point out that the wait time was 20 minutes at 7 p.m. today, Sunday, and is currently still 20 minutes. Apparently—from another post—they
turned up six new lanes (theoretically 12 new booths).
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tjsue
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Your 20 minute wait time must have been with a Sentri pass.
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huesos
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20 minutes does seem unbelievable but there have been some lanes to the left under construction.
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Otay
24 minutes today at Otay Sentri.....that included 22 minutes in Secondary for a "Random SENTRI Screening"
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tjsue
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I've never gotten across in less than an hour. The most time it's taken has been four hours, the least has been one hour.
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dasubergeek
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| Quote: | Originally posted by dasubergeek
I'll just point out that the wait time was 20 minutes at 7 p.m. today, Sunday, and is currently still 20 minutes. Apparently—from another post—they
turned up six new lanes (theoretically 12 new booths). |
No, that was the regular lane—insane and hard to believe, I know, but true, and not the BS CBP "reporting" site either. I can't use SENTRI at the
moment because I'm waiting for the half-dead snail that ferries information from the GOES site to the CBP to arrive with news of my new truck, and I
had a passport book holder with me, so no Ready Lane either.
It's Christmas Eve at 14:41 and the CBP site reports 30 minutes in the regular lane at SY, which means 45, and 10 minutes at Otay (no delay for Ready
Lane).
[Edited on 12-24-2013 by dasubergeek]
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EnsenadaDr
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Mood: Move on. It is just a chapter in the past, but don't close the book- just turn the page
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Guaranteed it will be easy to cross tomorrow morning.
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huesos
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CBP site
How can I find this site that reports traffic load at the crossing?
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durrelllrobert
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Site for all US border crossing times
| Quote: | Originally posted by huesos
How can I find this site that reports traffic load at the crossing? |
http://apps.cbp.gov/bwt/
Bob Durrell
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durrelllrobert
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http://apps.cbp.gov/bwt/ is showing the following:
Otay crossing as of 4:00PM PST
Regular lanes ((3 open) 10 minutes
Ready Lanes (4 open) no delay
Sentri Lanes (1 open) no delay
San Ysidro crossing as of 3 M PST
Regular lanes (7 open) no delay
Ready lanes (11 open) no delay
Sentri lanes (5 open) no delay
Tecate crossing as of 2:00 PM PST
Regular lanes (2 lanes open) 15 minutes
Ready lanes N?A
Sentri lanes N/A
[Edited on 12-25-2013 by durrelllrobert]
Bob Durrell
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Gypsy Jan
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It's The Season
Hubby crossed the border north two days ago in the early morning, using the Readi Lane at Otay.
He said that it took three-and-a-half hours.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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tjsue
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The app isn't accurate.
It was reporting a 20 minute crossing time in the regular lanes on Sunday morning. That was at 6am when I was in a taxi going to the border to cross
on foot, but traffic was backed up leading to the ramp going to Revolucion. If I had driven, and left at 6, I would never have gotten to work.
Thursday I'm leaving at 4am to cross driving, and don't have to be at work until 2:30.
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huesos
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to say that the app is not accurate is an understatement. Do the officials think that they are fooling anyone? The reported twenty minutes was a five
hour ordeal. What a joke.
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tjsue
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| Quote: | Originally posted by huesos
to say that the app is not accurate is an understatement. Do the officials think that they are fooling anyone? The reported twenty minutes was a five
hour ordeal. What a joke. |
I don't know who developed the app, but it's a big waste of time. I know how long it going to take to cross, depending on how backed up the traffic
is. If I get right on Revoluction, it takes an hour to an hour and a half.
If I'm denied a Sentri again, I'm going to move back to San Diego and look for a roommate. I'm not going to keep battling those lines. When I finally
get across the border, after leaving at 4am, I have to find ways to waste time until I have to be at work.
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durrelllrobert
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The app is actually very accurate
| Quote: | Originally posted by huesos
to say that the app is not accurate is an understatement. Do the officials think that they are fooling anyone? The reported twenty minutes was a five
hour ordeal. What a joke. |
...however the 20 minutes doesn't start until you reach the first alto light at the gate. The CBP can actually process 5 cars/ hour from that point
on. Time passes quickly when you're having fun like they are.
Bob Durrell
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tjsue
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It took 20 minutes to cross in the regular lanes yesterday morning. I left at 4:45am, and was across the border before 5:15am. I had a lot of time
to kill before having to be at work at 2:30. I took my laundry with me, and the Laundromat didn't open until 7, so I sat in my van and paid bills on
my phone.
After that I picked up my mail, then went to Fashion Valley to waste more time.
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