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Colombo-Katunayake Expressway Project - 25.2 km

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The construction of an expressway from Colombo to Katunayke is a long felt need to provide easy transport between the Bandaranaike International Airport and the capital of the country. During the last two decades several alternative routes were tried out before finalizing the current trace through Peliyagoda, Marbole and Muthurajawela marshes, which has minimum inconvenience to the public and reduce enormous land acquisition costs by avoiding densely populated areas. The Colombo end of the expressway will be connected to the existing New Kelani Bridge whilst Katunayke end will be connected to the approach road to the Airport.

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The proposed 25.2 km long expressway will have a four-lane dual carriageway (of width 25.4 m) facility to cater to a design speed of 110 km/hr from 8th-25th km, and to a design speed of 80 km/hr from 0 to 8th km section. The expressway has been provided with two interchanges at the two ends and at Peliyagoda and Ja-Ela to provide entries and exits for the expressway. The proposed Outer Circular Highway (OCH) will be connected to the CKE through the interchange proposed at Kerawalapitiya on the 9th km.

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The five interchanges will provide the facilities for the vehicles to enter the expressway and to leave the expressway as stated below.


The New Kelani Bridge (NKB) interchange will provide the facility of connecting the traffic from Colombo - Kandy Road (A1), Peliyagoda - Puttalam Road (A3), and NKB to enter the CKE.


The Peliyagoda interchange will provide the facility to enter the traffic from A1 and A3 routes to the expressway and for the traffic on the expressway to enter A1 and A3.

The Kerawalapitiya interchange will provide the facility to enter the traffic from proposed Outer Circular Highway(OCH) to the expressway and for the traffic on the expressway to enter the OCH.

At the Ja-Ela interchange the A3 route and the Tudalla - Pamunugama - Talahena - Negombo roads are connected to the interchange.


At the Katunayake interchange the CKE is connected to the A3 and the access road to the airport.

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I feel that making it a toll road really misses the point. Such a road is a lifeline, not a luxury - it should be free, and that would be beneficial to the city.

I never knew that Colombo was situated in such an interesting topography, btw! thanks for that!

Doeas this expressway covers defacto state EELAM ??!!!

No. If Eelam was a defacto state it'd be up to a government in Jaffna to create a highway in that territory - not a Colombo parliament.

I hope that a Federal government set up highways over the country - but really, for the first highway, the best route is from the country's busiest airport to the capital city.

I feel that making it a toll road really misses the point. Such a road is a lifeline, not a luxury - it should be free, and that would be beneficial to the city.

I agree.

that is so sad that you have a toll booth on a 25km road, thats virtualy no distance, hard to believe its even deserving of a project status on here.

true .. but its new for sri lanka .. though it does have superb infrasturctural network road system compared with other contries in the region .. it does not really match the road networks you see in devoloped countries .. also remeber that sri lanka is a small country the length from the southmost corner to the northmost corner is 400 odd km's ..

i wouldn't call sri lanka's road network 'superb' :S. it's very good in colombo around independence square and fort etc, but a mile away, it's pretty crap. oh, except for nahrenpita road towards rajagiriya.

even driving in colombo 15 is a nightmare - not only the congestion but the ditches too.

i was watching the footage of uzbekistan on the news a few days ago, where all these rioters were protesting in the streets in a remote town - i commented to my dad how developed and in good condition their roads were.

i agree that toll roads are a necessity for sri lanka, but, given this is the first one, there is no other way they could find the funds for it. :(

well the base line now runs from nugegoda to the kelaniya bridge ....so tht highway runs throughout colombo.. u can get from kirulopone to kelaniya bridge in 20 mins max..

tht highway will be connceted to this one which is to be built ... so when tht is completed from katunayake to kirulopone there will be a highway .. :) should be good once finished ...

will the highway be open to trishaws/bajajs'/ottos/whatever you call them? i dont think it should, it'd only slow down traffic.

the WA SILVA mawatha if you know .. is also now hooked up with the baseline .. and the duplication road now runs through st peters and connects to the marine drive .. which again runs through half of colombo .. so if you really look at it .. almost 4 parallely go throghout colombo .. starting with galle road , duplication , marine drive and the base line ..

will the highway be open to trishaws/bajajs'/ottos/whatever you call them? i dont think it should, it'd only slow down traffic.

it shouldnt .but i dont know wht the govt. would do ... . but since theres a toll .. maybe they won't use it anyway ... :)

and i heard since october 2004 they hv started to finish the marine drive to extend it up to panadura .. where the south higway would run to matara .. i would think the highway upto matara would take some time .. but the one upto panadura shouldn't ..

Well, I think this is worth saying the expressway. 25KM is not a short distance also.
The huge metropolis in world has about 30 KM for its diameter. And if the expressway run across from one side of the city to another side and help people avoid a congesstion in the city center, it is an expressway and should have toll plaza!!
Also, the expressway totally have no needs to be a luxury one. If its function is an express way of driving then it is the expressway.
Just my opinion...

This is the highway which would connect from panadura....

Design review and construction supervision of 60 km single carriageway, two lane, access controlled highway with a new 6 km road link to Galle. Major multi span reinforced/pre stressed concrete river crossings and 15 reinforced concrete single span bridge type under passes, 32 large span multi plate corrugated steel structures / reinforced concrete portal frame structures, 50 single lane under pass structures of reinforced soil / corrugated metal arch / reinforced concrete box structures, 250 drainage culverts, road side drains, earth retaining structures, rest areas, earth works comprising excavation of about 3 million cu.m of earth, 2.5 million cu.m of rock, asphalt concrete pavement, road furniture, traffic control devices, road markings, landscaping, street lighting at interchanges, emergency provisions, fencing and safety barriers.

this would be added i assume to the one which already exsists .... which again is 2 lane ..

The huge metropolis in world has about 30 KM for its diameter

I think you're wrong here...

Nice !

I think you're wrong here...

Or may be 50km.
As I know Tokyo, the almost largest metropolis area in world the diameter of Tokyo+Yokohama+Chiba+Saitama itself is about 50-60KM.
But in term of an average capital city, 30KM is already big enough to have a toll expressway.

:)

any chance of pictures of what the road is currently like?

Or may be 50km.
As I know Tokyo, the almost largest metropolis area in world the diameter of Tokyo+Yokohama+Chiba+Saitama itself is about 50-60KM.
But in term of an average capital city, 30KM is already big enough to have a toll expressway.

it's big enough to have an expressway, but not a toll one. :)

An expressway that goes through the heart of the city is missing the entire point. The toll mechanism expenditure itself is overhead, and to return the investment the toll needed will be quite harsh, I think, and the project will become underused in the short and medium run. If the money will be raised locally it will spell trouble for a relatively fragile economy such as Sri-Lanka's, so the best way to go at this is a PFI with a corporation ( perhaps and Int'l one) bringing knowledge and cash to construct and maintain for a fee over 30 years or so, with no tolls.

will post some pics later in the week ...

good news !

THE Government has given priority for the fast track of the Rs. 30 Billion Southern Highway which is expected will boost GDP growth to 10%+ in the South.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan Business Corporation (JBIC) is supporting the 'Southern Transport Development Project' estimated at a cost of Rs. 30 Billion will reduce drive time to 1 1/2 hours from the current four hours travel time between Colombo and Matara thereby driving productivity up will catalyse the economic development in the immediate influencing areas to help Sri Lanka achieve a National GDP growth of 8%.


The key is to fast track this project so that the benefits to the country can come in earlier the Director National Council For Economic Development of Sri Lanka Rohantha Athukorala said.

The budget proposal of new industries to be set up outside Colombo and Gampaha districts investing not less than Rs. 30 million in plant and machinery or building and employing not less than 200 being granted a five to ten year tax holiday.

In addition the Government granting investment relief, VAT and Customs duty exemption on the import of new machinery whilst also interest on any credit facility granted by lending institutions for such industries is also exempt from taxes will strategically fit into the benefiting the country due to the investments in infrastructure development projects like transport.

We can see the wholistic approach the government is taking to deliver the national growth target of 8%, said Athukorala.

The 128 Km long new highway will improve access from Colombo to the Southern Region and boost basic transport infrastructure, the key to catalyse rural economic development and drive GDP growth to 10%+ in the Southern Province.

The project consists of 3 sections. The Kottawa to Dodangoda section ( 67 Km) funded by JBIC is in progress with the China Harbour Engineering Company commencing work from September 8, 2005.

The second section consisting of Dodangoda to Kurundugahahetekma once again funded by JBIC, the contractor is being finalised.

The 3rd section Kurundugahahetekma to Godagama with Galle Port access funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the construction is in progress under Kumagi Gumi of Japan.

The project is to be completed by 2007/8 according to V. Sivagnanasothy the Deputy Director Department of Foreign Aid and Budget Monitoring Ministry of Finance.

The Southern Highway component will have major influences on the development of the disadvantaged southern region of the country and which have a significant impact on the high level of poverty in the region.

The proportion of population below poverty line in the Southern Region will be reduced to 12% by the year 2010. It is also estimated that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the southern Province will increase to 10%+ in the near future.

Wrong forum. the forum you posted this in is for highrises only.

Please pay attention to where you post something before doing so.

Great news

Speedy construction of Colombo - Trinco Expressway advocated


The construction of the Colombo Trincomalee Expressway (CTE) is long overdue and should be carried out without delay for the purpose of shifting Colombo centered development into the provinces, as envisaged in the 2006 budget proposals. The CTE was proposed in the early 1970's.

The expressway, proposed in the early 1970s should pass through Dambulla, which is the hub of Mahaweli produce trading, Prof Willie Mendis, senior professor of town and country planning of the University of Moratuwa said.

Such an expressway would cut down travel time from Colombo to Trincomalee to three hours, enable produce to shift from the Mahaweli areas to the east and west of the country and bring goods into the ports, for export.

From the 1960's the Mahaweli economy was agriculture and hydroelectricity oriented, leaving little room for the second generation of Mahaweli settlers to have opportunity in the progress of the Mahaweli project.

The 2006 budget advocates the remodelling of the Mahaweli economy to increase its contribution to the GDP from one to three percent. To achieve this, the budget has proposed an urban development program in the Mahaweli areas.

This has already been included in the greater Dambulla Development Plan proposed in the budget, together with the development envisaged in the eastern port city of Trincomalee and its region. With it, the Mahaweli Urban Development Program will be further strengthened. Consequently the Trincomalee Colombo Corridor will be the key to development, away from Colombo and Gampaha.

Similarly, the building of the Southern Expressway would link Colombo with the south, heighten southern development and an increase of the south's contribution to the nation's GDP, Prof Mendis said.

Great news

Look what I found somewhere deep in Infrastructure & Mobility :)

This one's going in the thread finder.

4 years later. :) (btw: Fusionist :D)

Is this bump bigger than the one you did, Verso? :D

see here for existing A3
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a very congested route and not made better by the mixture of traffic types and general indiscipline of driving in Sri Lanka.

However this road has been better marked and surfaced in recent years and it has a roughened area in the centre, which has greatly improved things as vehicles no longer tend to go on the wrong side of the road in the face of oncoming traffic!!

The Southern Expressway will open for 96 kilometers today, November 27th, 2011. It connects Colombo with the southern city of Galle and is the first ever controlled access highway of Sri Lanka.

Pics: Dhammika Heenpella

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It looks much neater and more according to standards compared to Indian expressways.

Even pakistan is neater than india.
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So nice!! :bow:

The E-02 wasn't the first in the country though
E-01 was there before
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E02 is not yet constructed. It is currently under construction, the Outer Circular Highway that connects all major roads to and from Colombo. It will open in 2012.

A road sign from local road to E-01
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E01 expressway in Sri Lanka .

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E01 expressway in Sri Lanka .

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