Special traffic plan in Colombo on 11, 12 May

A special traffic plan will be in effect in Colombo during the visit of the Indian Prime Minister, who will arrive here for the UN International Vesak Festival, Police Headquarters said.

Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to arrive at BIA at 6.00 p.m. on 11 May. According to the Police, all the following routes and byroads will be closed during the times he is travelling.

He will leave for Gangaramaya at 6.15.p.m. from BIA through the Katunayake Expressway, Peliyagoda, Baseline Road, Borella, D.S. Junction, Green Path, Nelum, Pokuna, Library roundabout, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Flower Road, Pittala junction and James Peries Mawatha.

He will leave for Hotel Taj Samudra from Gangaramaya at 7.15 p.m. through Nawam Mawatha, Uththarananda Mawatha, Mohomad Makan Marker Mawatha and the Galle Face Roundabout.

 At 8.20 p.m. Modi will leave for the President’s House from the Hotel on Galle Face Road via the N.S.A. Roundabout. He will return around 10.30 p.m. along the same route.

On the following day (12 May) he will leave for the BMICH from the hotel at 9.05 a.m. through the Galle Face Roundabout, Collpetty Junction, Liberty Junction, Pittala Junction, Red Cross Junction, Library Junction, Glass House Junction, Nanada Motors, Independence roundabout, Independent Square, Nidahas Mawatha, Maitland Place Junction and Bauddhaloka Mawatha.

At 10.50 a.m. Modi will leave the BMICH for a helipad at Police Field Force Headquarters through Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Jawatta Road, Keppetipola Junction and Keppetipola Mawatha.

The lane from Katunayake towards Colombo will be closed on 11 May from 5.45 p.m. until Modi exits from the Katunayake expressway. All vehicles towards Katunayake will be permitted to use the expressway.