{"id":86692,"date":"2019-03-23T16:04:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T23:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=86692"},"modified":"2019-03-23T16:04:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T23:04:35","slug":"sri-lankan-traffic-wardens-wields-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/03\/23\/sri-lankan-traffic-wardens-wields-power\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKAN TRAFFIC WARDENS WIELDS  POWER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><a>OPEN LETTER TO THE MAYORESS AND TO AZAD ZALLI &nbsp;FROM&nbsp; AN\nOPPRESSED MOTORIST <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time\n6 00 am Friday ,location near Galle face behind Taj hotel along road side\nparking area .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parked\nthe car near the parking area along the road with no police sign for no parking\nor board showing chargeable parking times , and went for a walk in Galle Face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On\nmy return I find this&nbsp; person with a\nuniform ready to hand over a parking ticket .I looked at him&nbsp; to see the a name of a private company\nwritten on it and his orange uniform with a badge of a company . I politely\nasked for his identication and authorization&nbsp;\nto collect fee from drivers .He got agitated and pointed at the parking\nfee ticket and said This is my identification !\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Question\nis any Jack or Jill&nbsp; ( somapla or Ahamed)\ncan print parking ticket books and collect money any where ,any time in Sri\nLanka claiming that drivers have to pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some\npay and take ticket and some&nbsp; do not\ncollect ticket and this scrupulous collector pockets the money. In other\ncountries where parking is charged there is a board showing chargeable parking\ntimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp; follow standing there at 6 am trying to\nextract money is absolutely ripping off .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayoress\nshould look into this and place boards to show free parking times .If CMC wants\nmoney they can appoint there stooges and give them an identification to show\nlegitimacy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During\nPremadasa \u2018s time Keselwatte unemployed women were given green jacket to\ncollect money from 8 am till 6 pm may be and they had a badge and\nidentification .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And\nnow CMC is employing private companies to do the same .Poor women are out of a\njob .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nis Privatization in our country <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next\ntime I will be more offensive and attract low enforcement to intervene .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera OPEN LETTER TO THE MAYORESS AND TO AZAD ZALLI &nbsp;FROM&nbsp; AN OPPRESSED MOTORIST Time 6 00 am Friday ,location near Galle face behind Taj hotel along road side parking area . Parked the car near the parking area along the road with no police sign for no parking or board showing chargeable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86692","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\/86692","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=86692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}