Remains to be seen how effective it will be. Cities like Bombay, Madras, Bangalore, Kuala Lumpur and Dubai have addressed the issue by building a metro rail. Colombo should have had a metro rail too if not for shortsightedness of Gotabaya Rajapaksa government. Brother Basil ditched a 0.1% loan from Japan, 40 years to repay with a 12 year grace period. That’s called Rajapaksa’s Vistas of Prosperity.
The government has launched Metro bus service to ease the Colombo traffic
