[SDCBC] Cell phone usage at airport

[Philip Erdelsky]

John Forester wrote:
> At 07:28 PM 10/10/2007, Abulifia wrote:
> 
>> Yakking on a mobile phone while driving should be ::BANNED:: period.
> 
> 
> And I was accosted by the police for carefully stopping to use my 
> phone! I don't use it much, and back then I had even less skill. I 
> was planning to pick up a traveler at the San Diego Airport, but 
> waiting to receive a call as to arrival. There was some confusion. I 
> was slowly driving past one of the normal pickup points when the 
> phone rang. So I pulled over to answer it, and got chased away by a 
> police car, whose occupant evidently preferred that I answer the 
> phone while driving to doing so when stopped. Being unable, through 
> lack of skill and excess of caution, of getting the phone into its 
> answering state while driving, I went away to where I could park 
> again and awaited another call saying where and when.
> 
> 
> John Forester, MS, PE
> Bicycle Transportation Engineer
> 7585 Church St.
> Lemon Grove, CA 91945-2306
> 619-644-5481 www.johnforester.com
> 

The police officer chased you away for waiting in the dropoff/pickup area,
not for using a cell phone.

The area in front of the terminals is reserved for IMMEDIATE passenger
dropoff and pickup; parking or waiting is not allowed.

Waiting in the dropoff/pickup area is forbidden for a very good reason -- if
any appreciable number of people did it, there wouldn't be any room for
passenger dropoffs and pickups.

There is now a cell phone lot about a half-mile down the road where you
can park, free, as long as you stay in your car. You can wait for a cell
phone call from an arriving passenger and then proceed to the airport
for the pickup.