The Sri Lankan Railway Track Development Ministry has decided to introduce an underground tube train system to Sri Lanka capital City of Colombo and the suburbs, Daily News reported Thursday.

The main objective of introducing a tube system to Sri Lanka is to ease the traffic congestion and also reduce the number of vehicles coming into the city, Minister Mahinda Amaraweera was quoted by the paper as saying.

Amaraweera said this would benefit people to reach areas in the Colombo City within a very short time at peak traffic hours, and basic studies for this proposed subway rail system have been carried out.

The Ministry is also studying the possibility of leasing out the land to a foreign company on a long-term lease so that they would build the tube system and operate it.

This tube train system is implemented successfully in Europe and some Asian countries including China, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

Source: Xinhua