WTA closes station restrooms due to drug use

Commuters wishing to relieve themselves at Whatcom Transportation Authority's downtown bus station will need to use portable toilets for the foreseeable future. The agency closed the bathrooms inside the station Friday because they had become a regular destination for people seeking a secluded place to use illegal drugs. The bathrooms at Cordata Station will be closed, too, although WTA Public Information Officer Maureen McCarthy said no date had been set yet for the Cordata closures. S