Passenger vehicles to be colour coded

November 15, 2012 02:06 pm

A proposal made by Kumara Welgama, Minister of transport to paint vehicles used for passenger transport in different colours was approved by the cabinet. The new colour code us is to be implemented for vehicles to be registered from 2013-02-01 onwards and for all other vehicles referred to above, registered and operated at present, from 2014-01-01.

Accordingly, Vehicles will be painted in different colours as follows.

• private passenger transport busses – Light Blue- PANTONE colour code no. 2707 C

• Public passenger transport buses of SLTB- Red-PANTONE colour code No. 185 C

• Vehicle used as School Vans and School Buses -Yellow PANTONE colour code No.1375 C

Presently there are about 20000 buses deployed for passenger transport by both state and private sector among the 4.5 million registered vehicles in Sri Lanka which are being used for different transport purposes.

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