Canadian travel into Whatcom County on the rise

While still nowhere near the levels before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, local border traffic rose significantly in 2010.

Last year 11.8 million people traveled southbound into Whatcom County from Canada, an 8.3 per cent increase from 2009 and the highest annual total since 2001. The data was collected by the Center for Economics and Business Research at Western Washington University.