DMT Wants Vans Fitness-Tested Every 5,000km — Safety Fix or Just More Cost?

The Department of Motor Traffic is working on a plan to make passenger transport vehicles — buses, school vans, office vans, and hired vans — pass a roadworthiness test every 5,000km or three months, on top of the usual yearly emission test. It follows investigations into several serious accidents where inspectors found worn brakes, bad tyres, and other technical faults as the real cause. One side says this is overdue: these vehicles carry our kids and workers every single day, and a quick check every few months is a small price next to a crash. The other side says van and bus owners are already squeezed by fuel hikes and loan rates, and quarterly testing just means more queues, more time off the road, and more room for test-center staff to demand a little extra to pass a vehicle quickly. It's still at the discussion stage, aimed at early 2027, so nothing is locked in yet. Would you trust a DMT test center to run this honestly every three months, or does this just become another fee to budget for? ඔබේ පාරේ ගමන් කරන වෑන් එකක හෝ පාස් එකක තත්ත්වය මාස 3කට සැරයක් චෙක් කළොත් හොඳද, නැත්නම් මේක තවත් බාධාවක් විතරද?