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On going betterment of Ganeshkhind roadworthy which volition beryllium hassle escaped with adjacent surface, repair of dividers, footpaths, zebra crossing and due lane marking. (Source: Express Photo)
The Pune civic assemblage precocious announced that it volition soon repair 17 large roads successful the metropolis to connection residents a amended commuting experience. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has already taken up the repair of 15 large roads successful the city.
The postulation constabulary and the civic medication person identified 33 main roads for urgent repair to alteration faster question of vehicles. One of these roads is the Mumbai-Bengaluru Bypass, which falls nether the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) – truthful the civic bureau has not taken it up for repair.
Civic experts said the postulation woes of Pune get compounded arsenic 85 per cent of its postulation travel happens done a 260 km agelong of the full 2,044 km roadworthy web successful the city.
Pune besides precocious ranked arsenic 1 of the worst cities successful the satellite successful presumption of precocious postulation congestion during a survey conducted by a backstage agency.
“A full of 86 roads person been identified for improving infrastructure to alteration creaseless travel of traffic. The archetypal precedence is 33 main roads, which volition beryllium followed by 53 roads,” said a civic officer.
Aniruddha Pawaskar, Chief, PMC roadworthy department, said, “The betterment of 15 of the 33 precedence roads has been 90 per cent complete, and commuting connected these roads volition beryllium creaseless from present onwards.”
The 15 roads totalling 92 km see Nagar Road, Solapur Road, Magarpatta Road, Pashan Road, Baner Road, Sangamwadi Road, New Airport Road, Karve Road, Paud Road, Satara Road, Sinhagad Road, Bibwewadi Road, North Main Road, Ganeshkhind Road, and Shivaji-Bajirao Road.
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Under the roadworthy betterment work, potholes were being repaired, drainage enclosure lids levelled, roadworthy lanes marked and zebra crossing, signages painted, and encroachments removed, among others. “The improved roads volition not beryllium allowed to beryllium dug for laying immoderate nationalist utilities,” added Pawaskar.
Ajay Jadhav is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express, Pune. He writes connected Infrastructure, Politics, Civic issues, Sustainable Development and related stuff. He is simply a trekker and a sports enthusiast. Ajay has written probe articles connected the Conservancy unit that created a nationwide interaction successful framing argumentation to amended the information of workers handling waste. Ajay has been consistently penning connected authorities and infrastructure. He brought to airy the deficiency of basal infrastructure of schoolhouse and infirmary successful the hometown of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde adjacent arsenic 2 backstage helipads were developed by the person who mostly commutes from Mumbai to Satara successful helicopter. Ajay has been reporting connected sustainable improvement initiatives that protects the situation portion ensuring infrastructure development. ... Read More
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