transportation

Whatcom Transportation Authority had the most passenger boardings per hour in its history in January, but the achievement was partially attributed to weather and the luck of the calendar.
The agency had a total of 511,566 passenger boardings on its fixed-route buses in January, or 48.2…

Whatcom Transportation Authority's board unanimously approved a deal with Western Washington University that would extend the student universal bus pass program for five years.
The board on Thursday, Feb. 9, voted 9-0 to approve the five-year contract extension. The deal is still…

Western Washington University students would continue to receive bus passes purchased through a student fee, under a deal Whatcom Transportation Authority is likely to approve.
But that's only if students this fall approve a five-year extension of the fee that buys the passes.
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North of Bellingham, along the road they call the Guide Meridian to Lynden, snow blew across the highway Wednesday, blinding at times, reaching 50 miles per hour.
Temperatures never got out of the teens. The high was only 18 degrees at 5:00 p.m. But with the wind chill, it felt a…

For Whatcom County residents, most scenes of Wednesday's heavy snowfall were on TV, from the Seattle area. The region near the Canadian border was struck instead by what qualifies as a typical, powerful blast of winter cold that began advancing from British Columbia Tuesday evening, flash-…

The City Council has taken the first step toward a small expansion of Whatcom Transportation Authority bus service on evenings and Sundays, but the changes likely won't take effect before September 2012.
Council members, in their role as the Transportation Benefit District board,…