N.S. news: Study to look into light-rail line [Video]

The train tracks in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality have been abandoned for nearly 10 years, but there is a new proposal to get passenger rail in the area back up and running.

“You’ve got a facility in North Sydney, you live in Glace Bay, you could take the train,” said Cape Breton University president David Dingwall.

Dingwall said a battery-powered train, which is being touted as Atlantic Canada’s first light rail line, might be a big advantage for CBU students and the community at large, particularly given transportation challenges that have occurred as a result of the municipality’s growing population and influx of international students.

“Well if you go to Europe, the Go-Train is the thing, in the sense that you get on a Go-Train and you’re somewhere else in 11 minutes,” Dingwall said. “So you wouldn’t have to buy a car. You’d have to buy a ticket.”

“If …