{"id":73622,"date":"2018-01-10T04:30:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73622"},"modified":"2018-01-10T04:30:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:30:53","slug":"kaduwela-fort-light-trains-from-2018-champika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/10\/kaduwela-fort-light-trains-from-2018-champika\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaduwela-Fort light trains from 2018: Champika"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SEE COMMENTS BELOW<\/p>\n<p><em>Fort bound Light Railway Service would be initiated from Kaduwela funded by the Japanese Government, Megapolis and Western Development Minister Champika Ranawaka said.He said the feasibility study for the project was being conducted and the Ministry was acquiring lands in the area for the purpose.Participating in an event to the Kaduwela Public Fair and the additional bus halt, the Minister said the construction of the light railway service would be initiated end of 2018.Apart from Colombo, he said the Kaduwela and Homagama areas had been identified economically valuable areas and would be populated more in the near future.Therefore, Minister Ranawaka said a proper city planning had been proposed by Ministry to the Government considering the commercial demand of the lands in the areaHe said it had been proposed to develop the areas surrounding Parliament to create office complex, including the Prime Minister Office and offices of various Independent Commissions.It is our vision to develop the Kaduwela \u2013 Battaramulla area as professionals\u2019 city with many State institutions. The construction work of three large buildings for the purpose will commence soon,\u201d he said.He said the area between Malabe and Homagama would be converted in to a tech city, including technical colleges and technology institutions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sarath100118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sarath100118.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sarath100118-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>He said 16 companies had already come forward in favour of the Ministry\u2019s strategy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An election is at the door step .Rjagiriya fly over has been declared open.Traffic is still moving in a snarling speed ,Canal passenger Trans port plan was \u00a0given wide publicity .Water is flowing and no boats as yet. Completion of connection of Kaduwela Kerawapitiya from Airport highway to Souhern highway is still in the horizon .Improvement to Kelaniweli Rail Line \u00a0is still far behind .<\/p>\n<p>It takes over 1 -1.5 hours to reach Colombo from Kaduwela.<\/p>\n<p>Building \u00a0an elevated light railway will take at least three years in Sri Lanka.How can it be completed\u00a0 in 1 year \u00a0.Officials and politicians are all talking in many forums ,professors from Universities giving lectures about the transport technology .But the poor people who use public transport keep cursing the rulers .<\/p>\n<p>Why are we hoodwinked by the politicians?<\/p>\n<p>How long can the people wait ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera &nbsp; SEE COMMENTS BELOW Fort bound Light Railway Service would be initiated from Kaduwela funded by the Japanese Government, Megapolis and Western Development Minister Champika Ranawaka said.He said the feasibility study for the project was being conducted and the Ministry was acquiring lands in the area for the purpose.Participating in an event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73622","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=73622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}