Southbound border traffic up despite weaker Canadian dollar

At least for the first month of the year, the weaker Canadian dollar didn't impact the number of people traveling south into Whatcom County.

According to data collected by Western Washington University's Center for Economic and Business Research, 1,129,744 people went southbound through the five Whatcom County border crossings last month, up 1.8 percent compared to January 2013, when the loonie was at parity with the U.S. dollar.