{"id":135071,"date":"2023-06-18T15:46:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T22:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=135071"},"modified":"2023-06-18T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T22:46:42","slug":"cabinet-approves-use-of-electric-buses-in-colombo-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/06\/18\/cabinet-approves-use-of-electric-buses-in-colombo-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves use of electric buses in Colombo city"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to operate electric buses within the city of Colombo, Transport Minister Bandula Gunawardena revealed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, he noted that the proposal was approved in a bid to reduce both, the environmental damage caused by exhaust fumes, and the impact of increasing fuel prices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The solution for this is to convert all public transport mediums into electric vehicles. Not just buses, we are also trying to introduce electric three-wheelers, vans and trains\u201d, the Minister said, adding that the private sector is likely to introduce an electric three-wheeler within this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Gunawardena also stated that steps are being taken by the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) close down several loss-making depots across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to operate electric buses within the city of Colombo, Transport Minister Bandula Gunawardena revealed.&nbsp; Accordingly, he noted that the proposal was approved in a bid to reduce both, the environmental damage caused by exhaust fumes, and the impact of increasing fuel prices.&nbsp; The solution for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}