At a time when border crossings are getting harder in many places, they just got easier at a pair of airports, right across the border and road from each other on the U.S.-Mexico border.
By a happy accident, San Diego and Tijuana have twin airports facing each other, and now they have a bridge connecting them, allowing U.S. passengers to fly to many Mexican destinations by crossing the road; at the same time, Mexicans heading for U.S. cities can change planes to fly from San Diego.
The key is a new privately-owned terminal on the San Diego side, and a bridge to the Tijuana terminal. For a toll of $18, passengers can cross the bridge and go straight to a border control post in the receiving country. Previously, passengers had to leave the airport by taxi to a land border crossing, and wait, sometimes for hours, to clear and head for the other airport.
A wall down the center of the bridge separates the two directions of traffic.
For more details from USA Today, click HERE
