President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, during a recent discussion with the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB), tabled a set of proposals to transform the organisation into a profitmaking state institution. Rajapaksa suggested that in order to ease the traffic congestion on the roads during morning and evening hours throughout the week, the workforce travelling to work in their own vehicles needed to view the public transport system as an attractive option. He proposed that the “park and ride” method needed to be immediately implemented. The park and ride method had been piloted in 2009 under the name “City Liner”. However, it proved to be unsuccessful due to various reasons. The operation was then reviewed and shortcomings were analysed and the park and ride idea had emerged integrated with a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system for Colombo city. In 2003, a technical report outlining the proposal and specifications for a park and ride system for Colombo had been submitted by Amal S. Kumarage of the University of Moratuwa to the Urban Development Authority (UDA), which recognised four points of entry to the city of Colombo – Peliyagoda, Wellawatte, Thimbirigasyaya, and Rajagiriya. In the report, it was noted that the plot size of a park and ride location should be able to accommodate between 400-600 cars. Thus, a four to six-acre plot of land would be most suitable as the accommodation rate would be about 100-150 cars per acre for a well- designed park and ride location. The multimodal transport centre built in Makumbura, Kottawa is to provide the necessary parking facilities for private vehicles, so commuters could use either the train or shuttle bus service to travel into the city.