{"id":68441,"date":"2017-08-01T14:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68441"},"modified":"2017-08-01T14:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:06:24","slug":"what-airport-in-a-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/01\/what-airport-in-a-port\/","title":{"rendered":"What ..airport in a port?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I was reading about the air port in Colombo next to the port suggested by the minister. I burst into \u00a0laughing and wondered why politicians listen to the crap proposed by the professors from universities who have no clue about real life .We have an airport and what we need is to connect the airport highway to southern highway\u00a0\u00a0 at Kadawatha and to \u00a0build the Kandy Highway as well as Trinco highway . They can build a highway to Kalpitiya and Jaffna if they need better connectivity. If they really want to expand Airport there \u00a0is plenty \u00a0of land which can be acquired in Katunayake.Trinco an Baticoloa airports can be upgraded \u00a0to International Standards and we will benefit<\/p>\n<p>It looks like some people who \u00a0have visited Naritha and Hong Kong and got the bright idea .To my understandings filling up Kotte marsh and building a Parliament was a stupid idea .We have used much of national wealth to build this white elephant .<\/p>\n<p>Likewise building an airport in Colombo is sheer stupidity .I wonder whether LRT in Colombo Canal Transportation System ,River transportation etc are also such dreams which we may never see in reality<\/p>\n<p>I keep wondering why technocrats who are advising the politicians make such unrealistic proposal and hood wink the public .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Dr Sarath Obeysekera I was reading about the air port in Colombo next to the port suggested by the minister. I burst into \u00a0laughing and wondered why politicians listen to the crap proposed by the professors from universities who have no clue about real life .We have an airport and what we need is to [&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-68441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68441","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=68441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}