“We have not stopped the monorail project. The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been completed for all these projects and construction would be conducted as Private-Public Partnerships (PPPs). What we stopped is the Japanese-funded LRT project which was also one of the four projects initially planned. What happened was, the former Minister had taken the Battaramulla to Colombo stretch out of the monorail project and had handed it over to Japan. Whilst we ended that agreement (with Japan), the project would be continued as a PPP,” Transport Minister Gamini Lokuge told The Sunday Morning on Friday (30).