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Readers ask about expansion at the Asheville airport and a lack of signs directing people to the Asheville Mall.

It was a hard decision for me to write this piece because many letters/articles penned on this subject, for decades (1981 to date), have fallen on deaf ears. After my training, under a WHO Fellowship, in 1988, on the subject of road safety, two seminars and exhibitions, using a physical model 16’X 8’, were held at the OPA, in 2000 and 2003, under the caption: “Introduction to the Basics of Lane Discipline”; which, like all good things, were completely sabotaged by the very same people who should have benefitted from it. (see The Island of 22,23,24 September, 2005, for more details) La...

The Cabinet, it is reported has approved the construction of an elevated railway track to serve Colombo suburbs. Is this the same Japanese-funded project, which was cancelled by the current government? Or, is this a completely new project” Whatever it be, the question arises whether this is the right time to undertake such a gigantic project, when the country is facing severe financial problems, and having to pay back loans. Readers may remember that an engineer once wrote on this subject, saying that if the elevated track (KV line) was to be constructed, over the existing rail track, to re...