Very much the Sri Lanka I remember best, yellow and black taxis, ancient buses, a lot less traffic, a thriving Fort area, even though some shops were empty of all goods! Low garden walls, and lots of gardens, and a much slower pace of life.
does it mean the same trains that ran 40 years ago and same red busses that ran 40 years ago still service srilanka ? my god thats 40 years ago.....we hve such amazing engineers could not we have thought of more modern transportation for public services... I see cars have changed but trains nd buses are still the same .2016 its 40 years after wow.
Why replace working old machines with new ones when they are still serviceable? Besides what "modern" transportation are you talking about? We haven't invented teleportation yet. Do you know that? The trains and buses are still the main form of transportation in all around the world, unless of course you're from another planet! FYI, bullock carts are not present anymore in Sri Lanka i believe. They have been discontinued. I guess, that should keep you happy about the progress?!
I suppose you hae not seen office traffic in srilanka specially colombo idiot . If not do stand on the road and see galle road ..see how the same busses that ran then still run today same model amd how crowded they are . We ran singha busses in srilanka a few generations ago . So I know what I am talking about . And today yes I work for a rocket science company based in usa so yes I know we do not yet have sucess on teleportation, its because of idiots like you that my srilankan friends still suffer soo much going to work and even the children .
My point was to tell the srilankan transportation department and government of srilanka they need to think of better public transportation solutions . If 40 years ago they use the same langama busses today population cannot be trasported in that. Further not everyone opts to go in monteros , even if they can afford it ....nothing like public transport .
maritana soysa I failed to get your point though. What's wrong with 40 year old buses if they are still running good? Where is your logic that today's public can't be transported in those buses. FYI, the technology of motor vehicles hasn't turned upside down in last 40 years. They're still running on diesel fuel driven diesel engines. Bus drivers don't need automatic transmission driven buses. They manage just fine with manual gears. Those old buses get people to their destinations. They don't break down on every kilometer, do they? What is your definition of "better transportation solutions"?! Decommissioning a perfectly running old bus isn't a solution for a developing poor country. They can't afford to crush good vehicles, simply to update or upgrade for the sake of updating or upgrading. You don't need a new iphone every year, do you? But, people do that, simply out of stupid consumerism. Those train locomotives are diesel locomotives. They run forever when maintained well. They are not coal driven steam engine locomotives like in 19th century. I don't know what a "montero" is, so I can't comment on that. For a government operated public transport system, those buses appear to be running fine. You probably need more new buses run by the government owned public transport system. But, you do have a system there that runs privately owned public transport buses as well, don't you? I'm sure they get to buy new buses.
+DD Andrews your free to have your own opnion ,but if everyone thought the way you did , we will not have developed in the last 40 years. we would have been still in supplychains that opersted where the produce was transported only into close villages and most product had to be imported into srilanka. trasport is not only public trasportation but supplychains of commodities and services that get transported via transport . for example there is a nice bread company in srilanka called finnagle bakery it makes bread transports it even to jaffna and all part of srilanka ... it reaches the end consumer in 1 day . from the day of manufacture they use busses trains and 3 wheels also for transport . if they used only the 40 year transport models we had in srilanka then and now that bread will be stale when it reaches the end consumer . hehehehe if you now turn around and say why bread from finnagle when lots of bread shops are around all over srilanka. ....I used bread as an example without getting into lion brewery products for a reasonl ....I can come up with soo many....its nice to hold onto old things in museums , they were built for that purposes...but in moden current srilanka , transport models and transport modes have to change .
moratuwa university of srilanka has some big plans for new trasportation in srilanka. I hope they will introduce it soon and we will have investors investing in srilankan transport . china and mahindas government laid out the road network , now the transportation ideas of the moratuwa university needs to be implemented .soon.
as for your comment on I phones , yes people buy I phones with each generation as each has faster and more modern applications . if your puposes of the I phone is only to dial someone and talk to the person deliver a message than first and foremost your choice should never have been a I phone .....its not consumerisem that drives the sales of I phones its its geneius technology....its a extended brain and a portal to the world beyound imagination .
Beautiful ,natural,heathy&fresh everything at that time
Nice informative film about SL in 1976.... Roads n streets without the 3Wheeler menace...
Very much the Sri Lanka I remember best, yellow and black taxis, ancient buses, a lot less traffic, a thriving Fort area, even though some shops were empty of all goods! Low garden walls, and lots of gardens, and a much slower pace of life.
I'm from sri lanka .Where are you from miss?
yes
Wonderful Ceylon, I just love it, nice to see it how it was.
real memories as I was there at that time. One of the great countrys and peoples of the world. But since then greed at the top not good
Look how wide the roads are. Shop owners have encroached the roads now, specially in the mainstreet area.
Brings back memories of my year in The Overseas Childrens School.ThankYou
ctb විතරයි.මග මරු කාලකන්නි ප්රයිවට් බස් නෑ..
සුන්දර අතීතයක්... නිස්කලංක පරිසරයක්.... දැන් ඒකට?
beautiful Colombo sri lanka
old is gold❤
thank' s to upload
does it mean the same trains that ran 40 years ago and same red busses that ran 40 years ago still service srilanka ? my god thats 40 years ago.....we hve such amazing engineers could not we have thought of more modern transportation for public services... I see cars have changed but trains nd buses are still the same .2016 its 40 years after wow.
Why replace working old machines with new ones when they are still serviceable?
Besides what "modern" transportation are you talking about?
We haven't invented teleportation yet. Do you know that?
The trains and buses are still the main form of transportation in all around the world, unless of course you're from another planet!
FYI, bullock carts are not present anymore in Sri Lanka i believe.
They have been discontinued. I guess, that should keep you happy about the progress?!
I suppose you hae not seen office traffic in srilanka specially colombo idiot . If not do stand on the road and see galle road ..see how the same busses that ran then still run today same model amd how crowded they are . We ran singha busses in srilanka a few generations ago . So I know what I am talking about . And today yes I work for a rocket science company based in usa so yes I know we do not yet have sucess on teleportation, its because of idiots like you that my srilankan friends still suffer soo much going to work and even the children .
My point was to tell the srilankan transportation department and government of srilanka they need to think of better public transportation solutions . If 40 years ago they use the same langama busses today population cannot be trasported in that. Further not everyone opts to go in monteros , even if they can afford it ....nothing like public transport .
maritana soysa I failed to get your point though. What's wrong with 40 year old buses if they are still running good? Where is your logic that today's public can't be transported in those buses. FYI, the technology of motor vehicles hasn't turned upside down in last 40 years. They're still running on diesel fuel driven diesel engines. Bus drivers don't need automatic transmission driven buses. They manage just fine with manual gears. Those old buses get people to their destinations. They don't break down on every kilometer, do they? What is your definition of "better transportation solutions"?! Decommissioning a perfectly running old bus isn't a solution for a developing poor country. They can't afford to crush good vehicles, simply to update or upgrade for the sake of updating or upgrading.
You don't need a new iphone every year, do you? But, people do that, simply out of stupid consumerism. Those train locomotives are diesel locomotives. They run forever when maintained well. They are not coal driven steam engine locomotives like in 19th century.
I don't know what a "montero" is, so I can't comment on that. For a government operated public transport system, those buses appear to be running fine. You probably need more new buses run by the government owned public transport system. But, you do have a system there that runs privately owned public transport buses as well, don't you? I'm sure they get to buy new buses.
+DD Andrews your free to have your own opnion ,but if everyone thought the way you did , we will not have developed in the last 40 years. we would have been still in supplychains that opersted where the produce was transported only into close villages and most product had to be imported into srilanka. trasport is not only public trasportation but supplychains of commodities and services that get transported via transport . for example there is a nice bread company in srilanka called finnagle bakery it makes bread transports it even to jaffna and all part of srilanka ... it reaches the end consumer in 1 day . from the day of manufacture they use busses trains and 3 wheels also for transport . if they used only the 40 year transport models we had in srilanka then and now that bread will be stale when it reaches the end consumer . hehehehe if you now turn around and say why bread from finnagle when lots of bread shops are around all over srilanka. ....I used bread as an example without getting into lion brewery products for a reasonl ....I can come up with soo many....its nice to hold onto old things in museums , they were built for that purposes...but in moden current srilanka , transport models and transport modes have to change .
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moratuwa university of srilanka has some big plans for new trasportation in srilanka. I hope they will introduce it soon and we will have investors investing in srilankan transport . china and mahindas government laid out the road network , now the transportation ideas of the moratuwa university needs to be implemented .soon.
Hiks
Thanks about your view, but sadly it did not materialise.
Sorry about the late comment.
Green colombo in mid 70s
Green ‘70’s = PAAN POLIMA
1976 කියන්නේ මිනිස්සු හුඟක් දුක් වින්ඳ කාලයක්. ඒ කාලෙ ලංකාවෙ හිටපු අපිට නම් මතක දහ දුක තමයි. ඒක නිසා 1977දී සිරිමා බණ්ඩාරනායක ආණ්ඩුව අන්ත පරාද වූනා. ඒ කාලේ ඉඳලා රට බල්ලට යමින් පැවතුනා. දැන් නම් ගන්න දෙයක් නෑ. සුද්දම කරගෙන ගියානම් ඌත් ගොඩ, අපිත් ගොඩ. ඔය කලර් වීඩියෝ වලින් ඒ කාලේ මිනිස්සූ වින්ද දුක් වහන්න බෑ. නමුත් හොඳ මතක සටහනක්. තව තියෙනවනම් අප්ලෝඩ් කරන්න. මිනිසුන්ගේ කොමල කොමෙන්ට් බලලා හිනා වෙන්න හෝ අඬන්න පුළුවන්.
hariyatama hari oba.
Colombo has changed a lot. Most significant: Not a single tuktuk!
Nice bs
No 3 wheels no Indian ladi bus 😊
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ඒ කාලෙ මොනතරම් සුන්දරයිද...77 න් පස්සෙ ජේආර් පෙරේතය ඇවිල්ලා ඔක්කොම කෑවා
Who is j.r
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1976. Just before the development explosion initiated by President JRJ.
lol, the truth is these pictures show the country which going to ruin its economy by a dictator called J.R.Jayawardene.
I happy to see the roads without ugly 3 wheels
as for your comment on I phones , yes people buy I phones with each generation as each has faster and more modern applications . if your puposes of the I phone is only to dial someone and talk to the person deliver a message than first and foremost your choice should never have been a I phone .....its not consumerisem that drives the sales of I phones its its geneius technology....its a extended brain and a portal to the world beyound imagination .
May be before 1976. Police Constables are with shorts. (1972 ?)
Wah
How the politicians destroyed this country
From ethnic conflict to literally running out of money
Still the same developments omg we are not developing
wattala gala handiya mata hodata mathakai.
Den kiyalath loku wenasak ne nda
How can that 1970 camara show colour video's...???
Cameramen could have been a beginner
Anyone from 2024 👉
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