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Expansion Project OverviewThe San Ysidro Border Station, located between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, is known as the world’s busiest Land Port of Entry (LPOE). This LPOE supports 24 northbound vehicle lanes in the United States and six southbound lanes into Mexico. Each day this land port serves up to 50,000 northbound vehicles and 25,000 northbound pedestrians. Expansion of this port is needed to maintain border crossing services and to increase efficiency, security, and safety for federal agencies and the traveling public. Three expansion options developed during recent master planning outline plans for a new northbound inspection facility, including primary vehicle inspection booths, secondary inspection area, administration space, and a pedestrian processing facility. A new southbound inspection facility will also be developed, and Interstate 5 will be shifted to the west to align with Mexico’s planned use of a reconstructed entry facility at the vacant Virginia Avenue / El Chaparral commercial facility.
Photo Credit: Aerial view of San Ysidro Border Crossing, courtesy of Caltrans.
Last Reviewed 3/25/2008
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