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CONGRATULATIONS! DIG Traffic, Police Department, Colombo Municipal Council and the Road Development Authority for introducing a uniflow system in Colombo after many years.

Uniflow is seen in Fort/ Kandy for over a decade. Uniflow is common in crowded cities of the world where flyovers are not available.

Let’s go a step further. Remove the Center Median. Resurface all Uniflow roads with just 50 MM of Premix rolled down to 30 MM as done in other countries.

In this country Resurface is a big exercise as 200 MM is laid with a very inferior Premix, which corrugates due to heat as the size of Grit is too small and Density is insufficient.

The CMC/RDA officials must observe the road surface of the intelligent world.

Construct busbays on left side making it compulsory for buses to drive in to busbays for loading and unloading without obstructing the uniflow.

Make bus only lanes as in Bangkok keeping sufficient room for a bus to overtake a parked bus in a busbay. Have only two bus stops for one KM stretch of the road.

Install synchronized colour lights for pedestrian crossings overhanging on centre of road that operate on request 2 per Kilometer, 50 Meters away from Bus Stop.

Colour lights must be timed to be Red, sufficient for a person to cross from one side to other briskly. This is how pedestrian lights work in other countries.

All pedestrian colour lights in this country are Red for too long for vehicles and most drivers discard the respect for pedestrian colour light.

Make the diameter of colour lights minimum 25 cm to be visible.

Most colour lights of this country are too small and the brightness is not enough to draw attention. Have colour lights with timers at pedestrian crossings for pedestrians.

Make all vehicle lanes other than bus lanes 1.8 meter.

Keep a sidewalk of minimum two meters on either side of the road to enable pedestrians to walk freely without obstructions jutting out from shops, restaurants tyre / cycle repair shops etc.

Get rid of Lottery booths and small unauthorized set ups on sidewalk. CMC, RDA must be vigilant and free from political interference to keep the sidewalks for pedestrians and not for business.

Enforce no parking of any vehicle inclusive of bicycles on sidewalk.

Have shade trees planted on either side of the road and maintained to grow straight to a minimum height of 16ft above ground and then branch out. Keeping minimum 50 cm breathing space for roots. I have seen MCs of Korea wash the trees and leaves during summer.

Most countries that have winter special grooming of roadside trees are done.

This is how trees are maintained in countries with intelligent officials. Our Local Authorities are famous for cutting down trees planted by the British. Not planting and maintaining.

Let’s make Colombo a better place to live, work, drive, walk and pollution free.

TISSA

http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/01/22/main_Letters.asp#2u

The food used to be great there, but now it’s going way down in quality. The place was always packed, still is, but I don’t think it would be for much longer, prices have gone up and quality has gone down. Hope they do it up, as this is one place you can have a beer all day long.
I was wondering how come cricket club gets to serve alcohol all day long and all other places can’t ? Someone told me as a foreigner is running the place, they get go on a different license and establishment class, but I don’t believe that. Is it that an additional amount can be paid to have it possible to serve all day long or is there something else.
Well I just wondered as when I was on holiday in Lanka for Christmas holidays that was the only place I knew other than the hotels that served during the day, but I guess you just have to pay an additional fee and they allow.
What’s would be another place which has food like cricket club used to, to go and eat at ? I liked the burgers there.