Sri Lanka’s long-neglected railway system can be a more useful complement to roads and could take up much of the bulk freight transport, reducing traffic jams significantly. In a recent BIG Issue interview the Colombo Mayor stated that every effort will be taken to reduce the traffic problem in curtailing the inflow and outflow of [...]
The Colonial Economy on Track: Roads and Railways in Sri Lanka, 1800-1905,
Colombo Social Scientists Association, 2002.
Indrani Munasinghe
Book Review: By way of critical examination of important British period developments in the spheres of socio-economic activity, political, social and economic historians have already written a great deal. What is of relevance here is note that scholarly studies [...]
A first in Sri Lanka but long overdue project amounting to Rs. 3 billion of railway electrification was proposed by the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL) yesterday.
This was revealed at the launch of “Air, Maritime and Rail Transportation in Sri Lanka”, by IESL which is the fifth publication launched by the Institution following the [...]
The recent closing of a Transport Ministry tender for 15 rail locomotives has brought back the ghosts of the last such tender.
Out of 10 French locomotives imported in 2000 at a cost of Rs 1.9 billion, seven of them were non functional and had to be scrapped due to various electrical and mechanical problems stemming [...]
Congratulations to the Railways Minister Dallas Alahapperuma on the speech he made to Railway employees recently. It was indeed like a breath of fresh air; we unfortunately saw and heard only a snippet of his speech over the TV but that was adequate. Unlike most of his colleagues he was not only candid but was [...]
Transport Minister Dullas Alahaperuma told at the signing ceremony of the renovation project of the Kandy railway station that the government has taken a policy decision to get private investment to develop the train service without privatising the Railway.
“We are planning to develop 12 railway stations from Colombo to Lunawa with private sector collaboration, local or foreign. We [...]
Sri Lanka will invite a private operator to build an optical fibre backbone in partnership with the state-owned railway system, a senior minister said.
Sri Lanka’s transport ministry which runs the railways department had been given approval to start looking for a telecom operator to lease the country’s 1,200 kilometres of railway tracks, information minister Anura [...]
The other major development projects envisaged by the Government are a second seaport in Sri Lanka in Hambantota and a second international airport. Railways are another sector where there is great potential for private sector investment in terms of developing a new railway system.
We are now carrying out a detailed feasibility study on establishing a [...]
