A week after record snowfalls in the area, the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is starting to turn its attention to sidewalks so transit services can resume.

Eastern Nova Scotia was blanketed with 150 centimetres of snow. The municipality declared a local state of emergency last Sunday to allow roads to be cleared.

"There's the danger of having a lot of people on the road waiting for a bus and so on," said John Phalen, CBRM's manager of public works. "So we're looking at all those options and w…