{"id":28858,"date":"2026-07-30T17:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28858"},"modified":"2026-07-30T22:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:22:40","slug":"104-more-metro-buses-arrive-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28858","title":{"rendered":"104 More Metro Buses Arrive in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A vessel carrying 104 additional metro buses arrived at the Colombo Port yesterday (29) afternoon. The buses were imported under a pilot project to introduce modern, comfortable, and high-tech buses as a key step toward enhancing public transportation in line with the 2025 budget proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These buses are scheduled to be added to the public transport network for operations within the Colombo city area starting this September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"\u0dad\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dca \u0db8\u0dd9\u0da7\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0ddd \u0db6\u0dc3\u0dca 104\u0d9a\u0dca \u0daf\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dba\u0dd2\u0db1\u0da7 | Trending Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bZ7_4I-Es0E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-28858' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=28858&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-28858' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-28858' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-28858' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-28858'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-28858' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-28858 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vessel carrying 104 additional metro buses arrived at the Colombo Port yesterday (29) afternoon. The buses were imported under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28860,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858\/revisions\/28860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}