Court gives E&N a new timeline to return rail service

There is a new timeline for the E&N Rail corridor. The BC Court of Appeal has given the federal government 18 months to get rail service back. The last passenger service ended in 2011.

Larry Stevenson, CEO of the Island Corridor Foundation, told CHEK the court ruling is good news but it will take time to understand all of the implications of the court's more than 100-page decision.

After 18 months, the court said it would be open to re-examining the future of a 10-acre right-of-way running through the Snaw’naw’as First Nation near Nanoose Bay.