Border Policy Research Institute
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| BPRI completes summer phase of border research on Canadian travelers | 2018-07-31 | ||
| With high B.C. gas prices, sales in Blaine jump 50 percent | Along with the increase in gas sales, southbound border crossings at Peace Arch and Pacific Highway increased 16.2 percent from May 2017 to May 2018, the most recent month for which numbers are available, according to Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute (BPRI).… |
2018-07-26 | |
| NAFTA renegotiation outlook ‘changes with the wind’ | A bi-national policy forum called the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region is hosting several… |
2018-07-23 | |
| Weak Canadian dollar didn't stop these southbound visitors this year | Despite a relatively weak Canadian dollar, Whatcom County continues to see plenty of Canadian visitors. More than 5.3 million people have traveled southbound through the five Whatcom County border crossings in 2018 through May, according to data collected by Western Washington University… |
2018-06-28 | |
| WWU’S Mary Moeller Wins Best Undergraduate Research Paper at National Conference | 2018-05-14 | ||
| Border crossings into Whatcom are up 16 percent. What's driving this increase? | Border traffic into Whatcom County continues to increase and gas prices could be a big reason for it. Nearly 3 million people have traveled southbound through the five Whatcom County border crossings in the first quarter of 2018, a 16 percent increase compared to a year ago. That's also… |
2018-04-25 | |
| WWU’s Border Policy Research Institute Begins Work on New ‘Border Barometer’ Project | 2018-03-12 | ||
| Motorists flocking to Washington state to flee Metro Vancouver gas prices | “I’d say 90 per cent of the B.C. plates driving through are coming for gas,” a member of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday. “Some of them say they’ve driven for 40 minutes and then they’ve been idling for an hour (waiting to pass through customs).” It’s always been thus,… |
2018-02-28 | |
| Increase in border traffic in Blaine a rarity along Canada/US line | Border crossings in the Blaine region were the only ones along the Canada/US border to show an increase in traffic over a six-year period, according to data from a Washington state research organization. A recent report from the … |
2018-01-29 | |
| A bridge too many? Falling border crossings raise questions about need for new span | Canada's declining position as a trading partner of the U.S. raises questions of whether two new six-lane bridges in Detroit between the Ambassador and the Howe bridges are needed, said Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University. … |
2017-12-18 |