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The first motor omnibus in Sri Lanka was imported in 1907 andbustransport began in Sri Lanka as an owner-operated service.Therewas no regulation, so when more than one bus operated on asingleroute, there was a scramble for the load. By themid-1930s,malpractices in pursuit of maximum profit began tocompromisesafety and comfort. The setting up of the limitedliability omnibuscompanies by the British around 1940 was the firstmeaningful stepin regularising public passenger transport in thecountry. TheRatnam Survey in 1948, the Sansoni Survey in 1954 andthe JayaratnaPerera Survey in 1956 studied the bus services in SriLanka and allrecommended that the companies should be nationalised.The historyof Sri Lanka Transport Board goes back to 1 January1958; at thetime known as the Ceylon Transport Board (CTB). Theinaugural tripof the CTB took the Prime Minister and the Transportand WorksMinister Maithripala Senanayake on a maroon luxuryMercedes-Benzbus imported from Germany. The bus is still owned bythe NittambuwaBus Depot. At its peak, it was the largest omnibuscompany in theworld — with about 7,000 buses and over 50,000employees. Withprivatization in 1979, it underwent a period ofdecline. Thecreation of a single nationalized entity madepossiblelong-distance operations and running buses on a largenumber ofrural routes. First broken up into several regionalboards, theninto several companies, it was finally reconstituted asthe SriLanka Transport Board in 2005. The move received bipartisansupportin Parliament. It was hailed by the Joint Business Forum(J-Biz),which welcomed the revival of the CTB: this was one of therareoccasions on which the business community said a state busservicewas better than privatized ventures.