It is a sad thing to note that the State owned public transport system vehicles in Sri Lanka are not maintained and cleaned.Thousands of new buses are deployed on the roads but no proper system has been deployed to do the daily sweeping and washing and interior cleaning of dust in the windows and maintain these new vehicles.
Minimum facilities and resources are provided to the workers to this job.Only a big bucket, a broom and a brush is provided and not even a piece of cloth to clean the windows.
We as passengers see some of these new buses not washed and cleaned for weeks. The Depot Managers and the responsible authorities will deny this allegation but the fact remains true.
We know that the C. G. R. is going to import 100 new passenger wagons to strengthen the existing service but sad to note that none of the present fleet of wagons or the engines are not cleaned, washed and maintained properly. Specially the toilets in the trains are not clean and give a bad smell for the passengers.
At least we would like to see that the new railway compartments are clean and maintained even for some time. The higher authorities may have seen the public transport systems in the developed countries like United Kingdom, China, Thailand and Australia and may have seen how they are being maintained and their cleanliness. Why are we lacking behind? Don't we have manpower and resources to do this?
The present Transport Minister Dalas Alahapperuma has seen and found that the Puttlam railway station as the dirtiest railway station in the world, but sad to note that he has still not seen the dirtiest buses in the world that belong to the Central Transport Board in Sri Lanka.
It is high time the authorities in the public transport sector (although they don't use public transport) to implement a modality to clean these buses and trains and maintain them.
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