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After a gathering with the officers of PMC and Maha-Metro past week, Union Minister Murlidhar Moho said the Metro obstruction web has to beryllium expanded with an purpose to gully maximum fig of passengers. (Express Photo)
Union Minister Murlidhar Mohol has urged the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Maha-Metro, implementing Pune Metro rail, to hole a elaborate task study for extending the obstruction connectivity to the airdrome astatine Lohegaon, a long-pending request of commuters.
He suggested the Metro way to beryllium planned from Kharadi to Pune airport.
After a gathering with the officers of PMC and Maha-Metro past week, the Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation said the Metro obstruction web has to beryllium expanded with an purpose to gully maximum fig of passengers.
“The Metro hold to the airdrome should beryllium planned with the projected way from Khadakwasla via Swargate and Hadapsar to Kharadi,” said Mohol, a sitting MP from Pune constituency.
The national curate said interchangeable and multimodal transport hub should beryllium developed successful Kharadi wherever determination volition beryllium intersection of 2 routes.
“The interchangeable and multimodal transport hub is an apt solution for Kharadi, which is processing astatine a faster gait with much residential and commercialized properties,” helium said. The curate said this would alteration connectivity to airdrome from each Metro routes, including Chandni Chowk to Wagholi, Nigdi to Swargate and Hinjewadi to Shivajinagar done interchanging route.
Mohol called for a caller way from Katraj to Hinjewadi via Chandni Chowk to tackle the expanding vehicular congestion connected metropolis roads. He said the statement would besides supply an alternate way for connecting PMC and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC).
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Mohol has besides projected a double-decker span from Vanaz to Chandni Chowk with Metro way connected top. A flyover for vehicular postulation arsenic successfully done connected Karve Road would resoluteness the postulation problem, helium said.
Pune Metro Executive Director Hemant Sonawane said that the suggestions of the national curate person been taken up. “The PMC should o.k. backing for preparing the DPR for Metro obstruction connectivity way to airdrome and caller way from Hinjewadi to Katraj. Once PMC sends a petition with DPR disbursal assurance, the Pune Metro volition commencement enactment connected it,” helium said.
Earlier, the Opposition led by Congress had demanded connectivity of Pune Metro to the airdrome for the convenience of passengers.
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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