{"id":53357,"date":"2016-03-29T22:26:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T04:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=53357"},"modified":"2016-03-29T07:45:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T14:45:06","slug":"who-gave-orders-to-destroy-the-wattala-kalu-ela-jogging-track-in-gampaha-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/29\/who-gave-orders-to-destroy-the-wattala-kalu-ela-jogging-track-in-gampaha-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u00a0gave orders to destroy the Wattala-Kalu Ela Jogging Track in Gampaha District?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0<\/span>A few days ago the Wattala Jogging Track was destroyed by orders of the Yahapalana Government. This track was created at an expense of 6.5million of taxpayer\u2019s money by the previous government. Whatever differences political parties and politicians have with each other the comforts made available to the people using tax payers money and loans for which interest will again be paid by the tax payers cannot be destroyed because of vengeance, jealousy or due to corrupt deals. The yahapalana government has some explaining to do to the people of Wattala and to the general public. After destroying the track and as a result of public outrage the yahapalana government is now saying they are going to rebuild it. Who is going to be paying for this double wastage? <\/span><\/p>\n

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People have become too busy, too stressed out and becoming too fat. So when the decision to create walkaways was initially introduced like all new ventures it was looked down upon. But soon people began to start using these pathways to exercise and found it not only relaxing but the physical exercise was improving their health. Urban and sub-urban Sri Lankans with poor diets, bad eating habits and work stress and personal problems were becoming sick. Jogging became an outlet to release extra pounds and relax. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Wattala jogging track was from Malbole bridge Wattala towards the expressway along the two sides of Kalu Ela (3km) <\/span><\/p>\n

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Shenali D Waduge \u00a0A few days ago the Wattala Jogging Track was destroyed by orders of the Yahapalana Government. This track was created at an expense of 6.5million of taxpayer\u2019s money by the previous government. Whatever differences political parties and politicians have with each other the comforts made available to the people using tax payers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenali-waduge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53357","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=53357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}