The 25.6 Km expressway will reduce the travel time between Kelani Bridge and Katunayake to 20 minutes.
The
expressway is composed of 100 box culverts and about 40 bridges along
with four inter changers at New Kelani Bridge, Peliyagoda, Ja-Ela and
Katunayaka. In future it is expected to have another inter change at
Kerawalapitiya once the Outer Circular Road construction work is
completed.
In 2006, the Chinese
government offered funding for the project from the Exim Bank and China
Metallurgical Group Corporation, a Fortune 500 company was selected as
the contractor.
Agreement was
signed in 2008 and actual construction started in August 2009 for a
contract period of 36 months at an estimated cost of US$292 million.
Road Development Authority officials said that the cost of the project
however increased, due to the increased scope of work and new methods
adopted in addition to increased safety requirements.
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