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SFandH
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Border wait times
As of now, 4:15 PM this website is saying the wait time at San Ysidro is 10 minutes but a user has reported 1 hour 20 minutes.
http://traffic.calit2.net/border/border-wait-times.php?type=...
??????
Is there any website that has accurate real time data?
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SFandH
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Just looked again and the user reported 1 hour 20 minutes disappeared.
double ??????
The question remains:
Is there any website that has accurate real time data?
[Edited on 9-23-2015 by SFandH]
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DENNIS
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Most of them get their numbers from CBP who is notoriously innaccurate. They just don't care to share reality with the bad guys they're looking for.
Ain't their job anyway.
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Tioloco
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I have yet to see any of them even close to accurate. Nor do the boots on the ground give a care how long you wait.
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Maybe it's time for a twitter or Facebook hashtag "#borderwait" or "#borderwaitTecate" or some such term that people can check on their mobile gizmos
as they head north.
Those waiting in line could update their status with #borderwaitTJ" and give a real, on the ground/in the line time estimate for others to check.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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Tioloco
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Whale-ista that is a really good idea
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Thanks Tio.
i tried the "#borderwait" tag on a Facebook, and it linked to the site everyone hates
(http://bwt.cbp.gov/?com=0&pas=1&ped=1&plist=2506...)
Maybe if people customize for Tecate, Otay and Tijuana they can make this work.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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Whale-ista
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Just tried twitter, came up with this: "@updatesandiego: Crossing the border into San Diego? #sandiego #borderwait #lalinea #sanysidro #otaymesa
#traffic http://t.co/5lYsffpz07"
Same result: CBP website.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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Whale-ista
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OK- maybe try this.
It's a Facebook page, closed group: "Como esta la linea Tijuana?"
People are updating frequently as they wait in line- their information seems accurate.
For those who don't like/trust/use Facebook, maybe Twitter offers something similar?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/547917278583407/?pnref=story
[Edited on 9-24-2015 by Whale-ista]
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SFandH
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Thanks. I just joined the group and my membership is pending.
But it's a closed group. Does that mean it doesn't accept new members?
Plus I don't see the updates.
I'm new to facebook so I'm not sure what's happening.
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SFandH
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I got it. I need to wait for admin approval.
"When you create a Facebook group you can make it Open, Closed or Secret. In an open group anyone can join and everything is viewable by everyone
online, including search engines. In a closed group, admins must approve members and only group members can see posted content. Secret groups are, of
course, secret."
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This could be exactly what I was looking for. Thanks
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BornFisher
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I always use the cams like this one-----
http://www.bordertraffic.com/California-Baja/Otay-Mesa-Tijua...
or
http://www.bordertraffic.com/California-Baja/San-Ysidro-Tiju...
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SFandH
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Group membership just approved. Looks good, minute old cellphone photos of the line, text updates, some unimportant chatter, but another data source,
probably the one I'll go to first.
Good thing Facebook has a translate feature. All the posts are in Spanish. I think the vast majority of group members are TJ folks.
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Here's a list of all of the border wait time sites I could find: http://www.mexonline.com/border-traffic.htm. By the way, saw something interesting the other day. I was crossing at Tecate and the wait was almost
50 minutes. As we finally came down the hill to the bottom just before the crossing, a car came driving down the parallel side road, guy gets out
walks over to car in line (probably 20 cars back from border) and gets in while the guy driving the car that was in line gets out and walks to the car
on the side road. Must be good, old capitalism at work.
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DENNIS
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SENTRI....get it.
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Whale-ista
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Has Tecate added ReadiLanes yet?
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Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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Not easy or automatic. I now know 4 people -- all quite normal, retired, and living in the Baja -- who have been denied. no reason given.
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Tioloco
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Dennis-
Knowing border wait times is helpful to everyone. I have Sentri but have to use the regular line when towing anything or when I have too much "stuff"
from a trip. I was sternly warned by Sentri for having too much "stuff" already- whatever that means?
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BornFisher
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Talked to someone tonight who waited 2 hours to get into Mexico! I checked a cam on the border looking north and don`t doubt his claim was accurate.
Seems reasonable for Baja Nomads to add a border forum sometime soon.
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Going north yesterday morning (Friday 26) was a two hour delay and we hit the border at 6:00 am Coming south, 805 locked up at 163 and was a crawl
all the way to the border. 805 was a crawl as well as 5 so it took two hours to get south. Once on the toll road, it was easy sailing. Guess
everyone was headed to the bars in Tijuana.
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