{"id":9973,"date":"2020-10-26T03:23:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T03:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2020-10-26T03:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T03:23:45","slug":"long-distance-buses-to-colombo-temporarily-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/long-distance-buses-to-colombo-temporarily-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Long distance buses to Colombo temporarily suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All long-distance buses heading to Colombo will be suspended until further notice, the State Minister of Transport, Dilum Amunugama, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This decision has been taken due to the curfew imposed on several police areas in Colombo following the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the State Minister pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDue to the current situation in Colombo, the health sector has instructed us to cancel long-distance bus services to Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means that if there was a long-distance service to Colombo \u2013 SLTB or private \u2013 they would not depart from the beginning point itself. Previously, if there was a curfew beyond Nittambuwa, the buses would travel to Nittambuwa. Not now. Those bus journeys have been canceled from the beginning. This applies to all SLTB and private buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One reason for this is all bus stands in Fort falling under curfew areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, the Head Offices of the Department of Motor Traffic in Narahenpita and Werahera have been closed until further notice, Amunugama added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All long-distance buses heading to Colombo will be suspended until further notice, the State&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}