Matara bus versus the coastal train after Maggona bridge work started — will the coast actually dump us

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Willem de Vries155 rep

We need Matara. News said Kalutara–Maggona double-bridge work started yesterday. Partner is panicking that the whole coast is dead. I will not invent a shutdown. Ordinary bags.

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Bridge work at Maggona is construction, not 'coastal line cancelled'. Ask the Matara or Galle board. Bus is the honest backup on a Monday, not a drama. Do not invent extra closures from one work site.

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We took the bus. Slow, seated, fine. Group chat had the entire SW dead by breakfast.

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If your train is listed, sit it. Work sites have been on that coast for years of ordinary delays.

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Beatriz Costa127 rep

Kids: bus. Pride photographing a scaffold and missing the board is a mood.

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Dario Conti147 rep

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