Dhaka goes Metro, Colombo stays tuk-tuk: Burgeoning Bangladesh and Backsliding Sri Lanka

by Rajan Philips On December 11, the Sunday Observer reported that the Japanese Government has agreed to reopen the Colombo-Malabe light rail project more than two years after it was highhandedly terminated by then Presidential Secretary PB Jayasundara. The project design was to start in July 2019 and construction completed by the end of 2024. […]

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