{"id":51966,"date":"2016-02-11T15:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T22:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51966"},"modified":"2016-02-11T15:29:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T22:29:51","slug":"government-moots-canal-transport-in-colombo-news-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/11\/government-moots-canal-transport-in-colombo-news-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Government moots canal transport in Colombo \u2013News Item"},"content":{"rendered":"

DR Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

As the ex-chairman Sri Lanka Land\u00a0 Reclamation Corporation which owns and maintains canal system in Colombo and also as the Ex CEO of Colombo Dockyard and now a MD of a boat building company I can suggest following .<\/p>\n

Canal system gets dried up during drought period and over flow during rainy\u00a0 season\u00a0 . The jetties to be built to act as stations for passengers to get in and out should be built which should be held by pivoted arms so that when the water level goes\u00a0 up and down the jetty goes up and down providing\u00a0 variable landing level<\/p>\n

Canal should be dredged quite often during drought period to make the depth of the canal sufficient for a boat to sail<\/p>\n

All the boats should be built with two passenger rows only and long enough to carry about 30-40 passengers with low noise engines<\/p>\n

Australians have developed solar powered boats which can be run at very low cost and with least pollution<\/p>\n

Every boat can have the side of the hull painted with advertisement of large companies who can maintain the boats<\/p>\n

Companies like CEYNOR coming under Ministry of Fisheries can join with a private company to develop a suitably shaped long boat like the ones used in dirty canals in Bangkok<\/p>\n

You need over 100 boats to ply along the canal starting from Diyatha Uyana closer to parliament roundabout and one boat can go\u00a0 via Heen Ela to Wellawatte and the other to Kollonnawa and into Kelani river and sail towards outfall<\/p>\n

SLLRDC may deploy private sector to operate and charge a royalty for using the canal<\/p>\n

We may even get a cue from the Tiffany meal supply system operated in India where employment can be given to the Vallah\u201d who may take the lunch to office workers using the boats<\/p>\n

Traffic Police can take a rest in the morning as they do not have to stand under the hot sun anymore<\/p>\n

Only problem we may encounter is whether we can find a dynamic leader to\u00a0 manage the operation without getting drowned\u00a0 in the canal bureaucracy <\/p>\n

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DR Sarath Obeysekera As the ex-chairman Sri Lanka Land\u00a0 Reclamation Corporation which owns and maintains canal system in Colombo and also as the Ex CEO of Colombo Dockyard and now a MD of a boat building company I can suggest following . Canal system gets dried up during drought period and over flow during rainy\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51966","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=51966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}