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No Road Yet to Tijuana's New Border Station
From The San Diego Reader
TIJUANA METRPOLITANA
Written by T.B. Beaudeau
"Mexico and the United States appear to be in a race to see who can erect their new respective border ports first. Both sides have been constructing
at a feverish pace.
The U.S. border station at San Ysidro has been under construction for more than a year, complicated by the fact that the old station needed to remain
functioning while the new one was being built on the same site.
Mexico is building their new border entry station at a new site, butted up against the levee of the Tijuana River and some distance (approximately a
quarter mile) west of the current site, which is adjacent to the U.S. border entry station and fed by traffic coming in from I-5.
The U.S., having completed a new pedestrian bridge spanning I-5, has been working on a new secondary inspection facility, resembling an elongated
railroad barn, where vehicles are brought in for a thorough inspection. Construction has been ongoing for about eight months.
Construction of Mexico's facility (on a former storage lot for imported vehicles) started some 45 days ago and is going up rapidly alongside the
river. Steel support beams and concrete pillars are the most recent additions to the main building up against the eastern wall of the canal. Both
countries expect to finish their projects around the end of October.
One fly remains in the ointment: how will Mexico-bound traffic be led from the U.S. into the new Mexican border crossing station? It appears that no
U.S. public monies have been made available for the construction of access roads leading from I-5 to the entrance of the new Mexican border station.
An article in Tijuana's daily Frontera offers speculation that private monies may be used for the construction of access roads on the U.S. side.
Reportedly, the controversy has become somewhat of a touchy diplomatic issue.
Meanwhile, Mexican federal deputy Francisco Vega de La Madrid has assured Mexican nationals and tourists entering Mexico that the old border station
will continue functioning until the kerfuffle regarding access roads is resolved."
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Oh god, please let the people in power, that we elect, get this right. Please, please, please. Do your job and make this easy, like it should be.
Please don't make me wait 2 hours southbound, and 4 northbound. I have faith you'll do this.
Staying positive!
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kerfuffle? clusterFuffle is more like it.
there are other places to spend money. if the politicians think tourists will stomach those kind of delays they're fooling themselves.
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| Quote: | One fly remains in the ointment: how will Mexico-bound traffic be led from the U.S. into the new Mexican border crossing station? It appears that no
U.S. public monies have been made available for the construction of access roads leading from I-5 to the entrance of the new Mexican border station.
An article in Tijuana's daily Frontera offers speculation that private monies may be used for the construction of access roads on the U.S.
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Private monies?
For what possible gain?
What are they going to charge a toll to access the Mexican point of entry to recoup the cost?    
Brilliant, if that's the plan of the speculators; as we'd have to pay, and they could charge anything they wanted to access that little 1/4 mile
stretch of road.
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions
-Herbert Spencer
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