{"id":226955,"date":"2022-07-13T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=226955"},"modified":"2022-07-13T10:30:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T05:00:38","slug":"huge-demand-for-bicycles-in-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/huge-demand-for-bicycles-in-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge demand for bicycles in Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petrol and diesel are costing more than Rs 500 per litre in Lanka. As hundreds of Sri Lankans continue to queue up at petrol pumps across the debt-ridden country every day amid fuel shortage, a large number of people are ditching their cars and motorcycles for bicycles for their daily commute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The economic crisis which is the worst in Sri Lanka&#8217;s history has prompted an acute shortage of essential items like fuel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Skyrocketing prices of fuel are also one of the reasons behind the spike in bicycle sales and some stores are running out of stock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rates of essential commodities have also gone up very high.Locals are often seen riding bicycles to offices and colleges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kennedy, who works as an HR chief in a private company in Colombo, said that he can neither afford petrol at the current price nor has the time to stand in long queues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That is the reason he is using the cycle for reaching the office. The cycle shops are full and in some shops stock is awaited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol and diesel are costing more than Rs 500 per litre in Lanka. As hundreds of Sri Lankans continue to queue up at petrol pumps across the debt-ridden country every day amid fuel shortage, a large number of people are ditching their cars and motorcycles for bicycles for their daily commute. The economic crisis which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":226956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/lanka.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}