Entrepreneurs rent out scooters to make border crossings quicker

By Jose Luis Jiménez
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

June 19, 2008

SAN YSIDRO – Jesús Alberto Nuñez walked up to the San Ysidro Port of Entry expecting to quickly cross into the United States. What the Tijuana resident found was a wait of at least an hour.


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Leticia Arde, who lives in Tijuana and works in San Diego, rode to the front of the line to cross the border into the United States. A company in San Ysidro is renting scooters in Tijuana for riders to cross the border, then turn them in.

Fearing he would be late to his job as a mechanic for the Metropolitan Transit System, he rented a scooter yesterday, snaked in between the waiting cars and drove to the front of the line. Minutes later, he was in San Ysidro and on a bus.

“I crossed really fast,â€