SLTB Bus Station

Frequent bus routs start from Panadura SLTB bus station #311 - Totawatta (SLTB & Pvt.) #450 - Ratnapura (SLTB) #450/5 - Horana (SLTB) #451 - Niwdava (SLTB & Pvt.) #452 - Rukgaha (SLTB & Pvt.) #453/1 - Kiriberiya (SLTB & Pvt.) #453/2 - Malamulla (SLTB(#447) & Pvt.) #454 - Mahawila (SLTB & Pvt.) #455 - Morawinna (SLTB & pvt.) #457 - Kidelpitiya via Hirana (SLTB & Pvt.) #459 - Anguruwatota (SLTB) #463 - Morontuduwa (SLTB & Pvt.) #466 - Indigaha (SLTB & Pvt.) frequent long distance routs from Panadura SLTB bus station. EX1-25/450 - Matara via express way (SLTB & Pvt.) Non frequent long distance routs from Panadura SLTB bus station. #17 - Kandy (SLTB) #64 - Batticaloa (SLTB)/ Bibila (SLTB)/ Mhiyanganaya (SLTB)/ Ketawatta (SLTB)/ Nuwara Eliya (SLTB) #66 - Embilipitiya (SLTB)/ Sooriyawewa (SLTB)

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Old memories popping up!

This is the old bus stand of Panadura city.Lots of buses for nearby destinations starts from here. Very old and place with minimum facilities for public. Needs full repair for this place.

This bus station is full of everything. Beggars, stray dogs, garbage, irrelevant posters... You name it. Place is almost in ruins. Staff don't even mind i guess. Mud ponds i inside station is a common thing on rainy days. You can often see miles long queues for some destinations without a bus in the same time empty buses parked for other destinations. Clearly no management of the bus schedules. You cannot expect the bus schedule to be consistent. If you got into a bus on a particular time today, it is doubtful that it would be there tomorrow at the same time. Common case with SLTB buses. Time period to complete a trip to a private bus is too long. So they take around 40 minutes for a 15 minutes trip. Usually they are parked around 20 minutes in the bus station before starting the trip. So it is a good 60 minutes for a 15 minutes trip. Funny thing is if you are even on a slow train, it won't take 40 minutes from Colombo to panadura. No rest rooms. I don't wanna even talk about toilets