{"id":66659,"date":"2017-06-05T14:56:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T21:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66659"},"modified":"2017-06-05T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T21:56:51","slug":"everything-back-to-square-one-moto-of-yahapalanaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/05\/everything-back-to-square-one-moto-of-yahapalanaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything back to square one \u2013moto of yahapalanaya\u00a0 ??"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Today I came across the same mess in Galle Face Green, (not green anymore ) where the customary Garbage mound has resurfaced .<\/p>\n<p>Little further away minister of tourism was also on his daily walk and seems ignoring the mess.<\/p>\n<p>After publishing opinion during \u00a0Wesak ,garbage mound has disappeared and I was feeling better ,but today I felt disgusted when I saw it again .<\/p>\n<p>But today we are back to square one !<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66660\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rubbish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rubbish.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rubbish-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not only garbage issue but many others are back to square one \u2026.<\/p>\n<p>I was travelling by car today and I was telling my wife that nothing is moving in this country .<\/p>\n<p>Police made announcement few months back that\u00a0 following\u00a0 steps will be taken to control traffic<\/p>\n<p>Lane discipline \u2026\u2026\u2026..Abandoned,\u00a0 Bus lanes &#8212;forgotten ,Traffic Control Cameras\u2026.vanished ,by pass road via diyhatha Uyana to Malabe \u2013Stand still\u00a0 ,Highway connection via port from\u00a0 Kelani bridge \u00a0&#8212;&#8211;no signs<\/p>\n<p>Canal Transport Project\u2026\u2026\u2026no development due to dilly dallying of corporation and ministry.<\/p>\n<p>LRT ( light railway ) \u2026\u2026\u2026..not in the near future<\/p>\n<p>Garbage treatment \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026forgotten ?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder when we could see some progress in the country .<\/p>\n<p>Yahaplanaya need changing to sara ( tough) Palanaya  by installing a tough leadership .Otherwise we will be back to square one .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Today I came across the same mess in Galle Face Green, (not green anymore ) where the customary Garbage mound has resurfaced . Little further away minister of tourism was also on his daily walk and seems ignoring the mess. After publishing opinion during \u00a0Wesak ,garbage mound has disappeared and I was [&hellip;]<\/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-66659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66659","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=66659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}