Expansion Project Overview
En español
The 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.
| Expansion Project Time Frames |
| Environmental Studies: Spring 2003–Summer 2009 |
Design Process
• Feasibility Study: Winter 2002–Summer 2002
• Program Development Study: Spring 2003–Winter 2004
• Space Programming: Fall 2004–Summer 2005
• Supplemental / Master Planning: Fall 2005–Fall 2007
• Conceptual Design: Winter 2008–Summer 2008
• Design Documents: Summer 2008–Spring 2009 (Phase 1) |
Construction Phase
• Phase 1: Fall 2008–Summer 2012
• Phase 2: Fall 2011–Summer 2014
• Phase 3: Spring 2012–Spring 2014 |
| Project Completion: Fall 2014 |
Photo Credit: Aerial view of San Ysidro Border Crossing, courtesy of Caltrans.
Last Reviewed 2/1/2009