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jerezano

Nov 5, 2010, 8:00 AM

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New Border crossing into Yuma, Arizona

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Hello all,

Brief news item:

MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday[Nov 4th. 2010] formally opened a new border crossing that links San Luis Colorado, in the state of Sonora, to Yuma, Ariz. It is designed to reduce congestion along the border sector from truck and ...etc.

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Nov 5, 2010, 9:39 AM

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The Associated Press November 4, 2010, 6:02PM ET text size: T T Mexico inaugurates Arizona border freight crossing Story Tools

MEXICO CITY
Mexican officials have inaugurated a new freight crossing point on the Arizona border, one of the first new freight gates built on the border in a decade.
President Felipe Calderon says the five-lane, $70 million crossing facility on the road to Yuma, Arizona, will help cross-border commerce.
The new San Luis Rio Colorado II crossing in Sonora state will have X-ray and gamma-ray inspection facilities to inspect shipments.
Mexico and the United States hadn't built new crossing points in several years, until the Puente Anzalduas bridge was opened earlier this year linking Reynosa, Mexico, with Mission, Texas.
Calderon said Thursday he hopes to inaugurate a border bridge between Tamaulipas state and Texas later this year.

Whether this means that passenger traffic cannot cross here or not I haven't yet been able to find.
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Nov 5, 2010, 9:51 AM

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From a different source I found this:>>>
The port will handle not only tractor-trailers, but smaller flat-bed trucks, pickup trucks and sedans that travel between the two countries for commercial purposes. Up to now, all commercial and private vehicles traveling between the United States and Mexico have used the port of entry in downtown San Luis, Ariz.

With Thursday's opening of San Luis II about five miles to the east, the existing port of entry will be reserved for private vehicles in a reshuffling that officials hope will ease congestions in the downtown areas of both cities.<<<<<<

So apparently, private vehicles will NOT be allowed to cross at this new bridge.

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(This post was edited by jerezano on Nov 5, 2010, 9:52 AM)