The Sri Lanka Transport Board says that all depots have been instructed not to run buses outside the directions of the police and the Disaster Management Unit when running buses in flood-prone areas.
Also, its chairman, Mr. Lalith de Alwis, mentioned that instructions have been given to remove endangered trees near depots and bus parking areas.
He mentioned that this decision was taken based on the recent incident of a tree falling on a bus in Kollupitiya area.
Advice to Mr Lalith De Alwis removing trees just because a tree fell on a bus is not good enough. Get proper advice to tree scan & then chop off branches of the tree before cutting it down completely as not all trees are prone to fall on buses!