Problem

San Diego and Tijuana, when combined, make up one of the largest metropolitan areas in the Americas, with a total of just over 5 million residents reported in 2009, also being the largest bi-national metropolitan area shared between the United States and Mexico. As it currently stands, the border crossing between these sister cities is the most-trafficked in the world, in 2005 accounting for 17 million vehicles and 50 million people entered the United States at the San Ysidro port of entry in one year alone. Regions along the Mexico/United States are among the fastest growing urban and rural settings in the country, which precipitates into needing more services and infrastructure in these areas, including transportation hubs and airports, the former and latter of which is sorely needed on both sides of the San Diego/Tijuana border.

In a growing urban and sociological world, communication and cooperation are becoming ever more important in order to maintain a positive and civil level of interaction among neighboring cities, especially ones which are as closely tied together as the cities of San Diego and Tijuana. The current state of communication and interaction and perception between these two cities however, is not quite the positive-reinforcing, open communication and cooperation that one would expect from two cities which are so intertwined in culture, economy, and populace. The manner of communication and cooperation need to be increased in order to insure positive urban growth.