Maligawa floodlights still on but the lane lamps look municipal - which one means the street is actually open
Temple is still a white wall of light. Our lane is ordinary orange street lamps. Partner says as long as the floodlights are on, Dalada is still "event." I say the orange lamps mean CEB and we can walk it. Which light is the signal.
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Floodlights on the Maligawa are a building, not a traffic plan. They stay on after the loop. Municipal lamps coming back means the lane has lighting, not that Dalada is a carriageway. Tape and uniforms are the signal. Lights are not.
If there is still a cone or a jeep, it is not open. Do not treat a floodlit facade as an invitation to walk the relic street like a stadium.
Queen's was still floodlit at 10 and we still got waved off the road. Inland orange lamps were just lamps.
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