Sri Lanka has an
approximately 120,000-kilometer road network sufficient to meet 90% of
transportation demand. The Road Development Authority (RDA) is responsible for
the maintenance and development of national roads of the A and B classes and
4,480 bridges over the total length of highways.
The regional councils were
responsible for about another 15,000 kilometers of C and D-class highways.
Local governments and other government and private institutions maintain and
develop the balance. The newly elected
government aims to improve the following:
- Colombo-Kandy Expressway and the Port city elevated highway project
will be extended and finished without further delays. The network will also
connect Kottawa, Battaramulla, and Peliyagoda.
- The government will also complete the Northern and Ratnapura
expressway, while feasibility studies will be conducted to explore the
possibility of having an elevated highway at 1000 feet connecting Kandy to
Nuwara Eliya.
- They will also incorporate an overtaking lane at intervals of 3-5KM
to ease the traffic congestion in areas identified as bottlenecks.
- The island-wide network of roads amounting to 120,000 KM, which
includes all rural roads, has neither been developed nor maintained. Therefore,
the entire road network that has fallen into a state of disrepair and neglect
will be resurfaced and modernized to conform to international standards.
- They will develop 100,000 KM alternative road system to facilitate a
higher level of access to main roads and expressways, while all internal and
rural access roads will be improved to facilitate access to the alternative
road system.
- They will modernize the Ceylon Transport Board (CTB) and make it a
world-class transport service on par with any other developed country. The bus
stands, located on prime land, will be developed alongside servicing and
maintenance depots of such bus routes and networks for commercial purposes of
generating revenue to the CTB.
- They also intend to re-fleet the current bus stock and introduce
environmentally friendly buses (electric and hybrid buses) to ply within the
city limits of the New Colombo. All public and private transport providers will
adopt this ‘Green Transport’ concept.
- The government will introduce a single transport e-ticket system,
i.e. multi-modal ticket, day tickets, etc.along with a process, and they will
also implement an e-ticketing mechanism for all public and private transport
services.
- Develop and upgrade all train compartments, carriages, and clean and
repair them and make them available to the public.
- Colombo-Panadura-Veyangoda, Ragama-Katunayake-Negombo, and Maradana-Homagama
rail lines will be converted into electric train routes and thereby ensure the
provision of a luxury transport service similar to that planned for the buses,
for the public.
- E-ticketing system will be provided and introduced for all train
transportation.
- The railway will also be used to transport goods since it will help
to minimize the traffic situation aggravated by container transportation via
roads. They will provide assistance to import required locomotives and will
establish a method to build trailers locally - trailers needed for cargo
transportation. They will expand facilities necessary to transport cargo via
trains to Colombo, Hambantota, Trincomalee, and Kankasanthurai ports.
- They will develop all key train stations, converting them into a functional,
recreational, meeting, greeting and eating places, with malls and shops needed
to provide consumers with a total travel experience
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to partner with OSL to bid for Road network-related Projects open for
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VBS/AT/19122019/Z_TB3
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