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Bottlenecks at the border - USA - No relief in sight for longer lines
San Diego,CA,USA -The San Diego Tribune, by Diane Lindquist -30 Aug 206: -- Although no official statistics track delays at the border, people who cross say they are waiting longer this unusually hot summer, and border officials agree... While U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it is doing all it can to move people along swiftly, the reality is improvement might not occur until the San Ysidro port of entry is expanded and a third border crossing opens. That is years away... The bottleneck of cargo trucks at the Otay Mesa commercial crossing also has grown longer. The average wait is three to five hours and sometimes more, said Juan González, a driver for G&S Express trucking, who recently was ferrying a load of fresh-picked produce across the border... The only possibility of a relatively swift border passage are the special fast-pass SENTRI lanes for passenger vehicles and FAST lanes for cargo trucks. Vehicles enrolled in the SENTRI program normally pass through the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa port of entries in fewer than 15 minutes... The only real relief, however, will be expanding the San Ysidro crossing by shifting southbound traffic to the old Virginia Avenue-El Chaparral commercial crossing and building a new border crossing east of the Otay Mesa port of entry, called Otay II... (Photo: by PEGGY PEATTIE / Union-Tribune - Delays at San Ysidro and Otay Mesa crossings cost more than $8 billion annually. Traffic backups are longer than ever before at the San Ysidro port of entry from Mexico into the United States, as well as at the Otay Mesa crossing. Two-hour delays for autos are common, and trucks at the Otay Mesa commercial crossing wait much longer)
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