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fdt
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaboolie
We used to drive through at 4AM, but this year we'll cross at 6...and I'm bummed to wait! |
Why wait if there is no need? Just take the free road.
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fdt
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So, let me ask "hipotetically" if there was a major break in the toll road and it could not be used would people just not travel? Is it that you must
pay $2.65 or more to travel? Send me a check for half that ammount and I'll let you travel the free road.
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bajaboolie
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fdt
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaboolie
We used to drive through at 4AM, but this year we'll cross at 6...and I'm bummed to wait! |
Why wait if there is no need? Just take the free road. |
Ok, you're cracking me up with this free road business.  You'll be happy to
know that your words aren't lost, though, and I proooomise to look closely at the map you posted on the other thread. I'm worried that since I've
never taken the road, I'll take a wrong turn and find myself in a dead end with wild barking dogs, all the bad cops having a Bad Guy Conference and
kidnappers eyeing my daughter! Kidding about that, but you get the point...I'm a sucker for familiarity. Just call me Nervous Nelly. Seriously,
though, is the route reasonably safe? How much longer does it take?
Bajaboolie
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Gypsy Jan
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Here's a Suggestion
Form a PAC, perhaps you could name it WWTTOTTRAFTWFL (We Want to Travel on the Toll Road Any ******* Time We Feel Like).
Raise money, find a Mexican lobbyist, pay money, pay more money, change lobbyist with new government, pay more money.
Eventually, laws will be passed and maybe funding will be earmarked.
Does this process sound familiar?
[Edited on 10-1-2007 by Hose A]
“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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fdt
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Ok Nervous Nelly, next time you want to travel south let me know ahead of time and I'll wait at the border, you follow (as if I had you by my hand) me
and I'll even bring my 5 year old and my 13 year old girls and we will lead you to the free road. Oh and we'll do it for free, you wont even have to
pay the half price I stated before
Is it faster, no, is it safer, I think so and I see no reports of kidnappings for the free road. It is a shorter more logical route but it does have
traffic lights. I'll ask again, does speed count? Relax, what's your hurry to go pay a toll?
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fdt
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
pay money, pay more money, change lobbyist with new government, pay more money.
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I'm glad I'm a Nomad, makes me feel like I have money and money and more money
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Iflyfish
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ftd,
money and more money and more....... you are becoming a notre ftd!
Would you like some credit cards too?
Humor aside, I appreciate your thinking on this issue. I have thought that the toll roads were safer and that just isn't turning out to be the case. I
also agree that the bad guys will adjust their methods as needed.
Are the lights being used by the banditos the same as on the Federal Cars? What color do the Federales use?
Ifyfish
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fdt
It is a shorter more logical route but it does have traffic lights. |
Ferna....
He could avoid the traffic lights through Tijuana by taking the border fence road up and over the hill and where the road splits off to the right for
the toll road, don't take the turn. Go straight for a few miles and take the well marked right to Rosarito / Ensenada. You're still on the free
road, and coming to the toll road at the north end of Rosarito. Get on the toll road or go into Rosarito. A couple of lights but not bad.
[Edited on 10-1-2007 by DENNIS]
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DENNIS
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Actually, that's the same road you're talking about, just going around Tijuana rather than through it.
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Cypress
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Lots of bad things happen after midnight on and off the road. Bad guys tend to be active when most folks are sleeping.
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fdt
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Iflyfish
Are the lights being used by the banditos the same as on the Federal Cars? What color do the Federales use?
Ifyfish |
Policia Federal Preventiva or de Caminos would be plain Black and white units be it cars or trucks or SUV's, same as CHP.
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Baja&Back
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Anyone can buy red & blue flashing lights at most flea markets in Baja or the US. I've seen them.
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SDRonni
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fdt: The building is Las Olas Mar Y Sol, which is directly south of what used to be El Oasis, now Century Hotel???......on the toll road......Any way
to get there avoiding the toll road?
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DENNIS
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SDRonni......
I know right where you are. You'll have to go south on the toll road for about two miles to the turn-off to Rosarito. Turn off at that road and
turn around, cross the overpass and follow the signs toward La Gloria. That road is the same road fdt has been talking about heading into downtown
Tijuana.
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fdt
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SDR I'll draw on a map for you, hold on.
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bajamigo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBomber
They reported that the robbers seemed like they were on speed. They accused them of drunk driving and that they were going to take their vehicles.
They managed to keep their vehicles but lost a lot of cash. Not sure how they got out of it yet. I do know that they cancelled their trip and came
straight home and are extemely shaken.
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The pattern seems to be that one vehicle pulls you over, using phony red lights, etc., and a second pulls in front to block your progress. Unless
you're being stopped by a Federale black-and-white, what's the best thing to do?
1. Keep going until you reach a toll booth or some populated area, or
2. Suffer some front-end damage and push the b****rd out of the way, or
3. Something else?
Or are these guys so convincing that you basically can't do anything. Would love to see opinions.
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Did I see somewhere that the they are talking about handing that toll road over the to the State?
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Seems like a lot of opinions already amigo... on a number of unsubstantiated and unreported instances of stuff
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fdt
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SDRonny, here is a map, sorry my wife i using the PC with the other program I'm used to, had to do this one on prehistoric paint. When you reach the
junction free to toll road, stay to the right lanes as if going into Rosarito, then almost immediatly to the left you go over the bridge were it sais
(says)Tijuana toll road, it will be the left lane and then just go past Oasis (were your condo is) and exit at the bridge, and return. Hope it helps.
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fdt
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajabound2005
Did I see somewhere that the they are talking about handing that toll road over the to the State? |
They have been talking about it for a long time now.
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