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The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) intends to improve the railway system of the country, and aims to increase the share of railway from 5% to 10% in passenger traffic substantially by improving the Railway Network in the Colombo Suburban Area (CSA). CSA covers four major passenger corridors to Colombo City, namely, the Kelani Valley Line (Colombo to Avissawella), Main Line (Colombo to Rambukkana), Coastal Line (Colombo to Kaluthara South) and Puttlam Line (Ragama to Negambo).

To develop the above stated four major rail corridors, the Ministry of Transport Services Management (MoTSM) along with Sri Lanka Railways (SLR), National Planning Department (NPD) and External Resource Department (ERD) took a major initiative under the financing from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). That is the Colombo Suburban Railway Project (CSRP) and the project, at present (beginning of 2020), has reached completion of it’s detailed design and bid document preparation stage.

The broader objective of the project is to develop Sri Lanka Railways to deliver its contribution to National Transport System over the next 20 years

The Project is to provide high quality rail transport services to the people, by modernizing the railway infrastructure to match with state-of-art technology and by introducing best railway practices to the railway operation. Enhancing safety of operation, travel time reduction, enhanced frequency of operation while maintaining reliability, integration of railway operation with other transport modes, passenger comfort, increased revenue through modal shift and from transit-oriented development are the expected key outcomes of CSRP.

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