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The Otay Mesa East Port of Entry is a planned border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, approximately two miles east of the existing Otay Mesa Port of Entry.The crossing will connect the Otay Centenario borough of Tijuana with East Otay Mesa in unincorporated San Diego County, an as-yet undeveloped area slotted for future development including a business park. [1]
Port of Entry United States Road/Highway City and State Mexican Port of Entry Mexican Road/Highway City and State Status Otay Mesa East: SR 11 Toll: East Otay Mesa, California: Mesa de Otay II: Tijuana, Baja California: This is expected to be the first toll-based border crossing on the US-Mexico border. It is planned to open in 2024. [3]
The Otay Mesa Port of Entry is accessed by California State Route 905 on the northern side. Since commercial traffic cannot use the San Ysidro Port of Entry, for commercial traffic Otay Mesa is the southern terminus of the Interstate 5 corridor. The port of entry is the third-busiest commercial port of entry on the Mexico–United States border.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry along the border with Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in San Diego.
SR 11 is proposed to be a toll facility that will serve a new border crossing east of Otay Mesa, [3] the Otay Mesa East Port of Entry.It will connect SR 125 and SR 905 to the Corredor Tijuana-Rosarito 2000 corridor that connects to Mexican Federal Highway 2D and Mexican Federal Highway 2 to Tecate, and Mexican Federal Highway 1D to Ensenada.
Unlike the San Ysidro border, the Otay Mesa crossing typically has less tourist traffic but plenty of commercial and agricultural traffic. The crossing is about 25 minutes east of San Ysidro.
East Otay Mesa is immediately east of the Otay Mesa neighborhood of the city of San Diego, west of the San Ysidro Mountains, and north of the Centenario borough of Tijuana, Mexico. The Otay Mesa East Port of Entry (also "Otay Mesa II"), a planned border crossing, is to connect East Otay Mesa with Centenario, Tijuana.
Automakers with East Coast ports of entry could face months of rippling delays for new vehicles and parts after the longshoremen went on strike starting Oct. 1.