High Level Road mayhem morning and evening
Old stagers would recall with nostalgia how motoring along the ‘High Level Road’ (HLR) from Hanwella, through Homagama, Pannipitiya, Maharagama, Navinna, Delkanda, Nugegoda and Kirulapone was sheer bliss – the relatively elevated (high) and wide road with hardly any traffic then was the route of choice for those folk resident in the south-east suburbs of Colombo. Not anymore!
Sadly HLR has morphed into a motorists’ hell (if there was one!) with bumper-to-bum