I’m sure places like LA are constantly working on improving traffic flow using some high tech stuff. I noticed in Mumbai that yes it gets gridlocked at a time but they are building and expanding roads like mad.

I don’t see us doing either.

There are also some external factors that I think clog up the whole system. Some off the cuff examples I can think of: the sewer leak on castle street is one. The other is the protest by angry train commuters that blocked a road during rush hour the last Friday.

Maybe this indicates that the Colombo traffic flow is easily affected by one or two small clogs or slow downs in the system. I’ve heard that LA and Mumbai has the same probs at a scale that makes Colombo traffic seem like a formula 1 race

For example near Asiri Hospital there are a few turn offs. If we can limit cars from cutting across the road then we will have a better flow.

Lets say you want to turn into Asiri coming from Narahenpita. You should go past Asiri and do a U turn at the next island/tear drop roundabout and then do a left to Asiri.

Its all about flow. Maybe this needs more research and some diagrams.

This post clearly falls under the “science of the daily grind”.

Hope your weekend is going well