8/12/2017
PUNE: The civic
administration and the traffic police announced various measures to be taken
over the next 15 days to reduce daily congestion on the busy Ahmednagar road.
The measures will be enforced on a 4km stretch between Yerwada and
Kharadi.
The traffic cops will not allow private luxury buses to halt
at Yerawada and Shastrinagar chowks, while Pune Municipal Corporation will
remove encroachments on this stretch, up to Kharadi, and relocate the hawkers
at designated spots by the end of December. The alignment of bus rapid transit system (BRTS) lanes will
also undergo minor changes at a couple of locations. The municipal
administration will take up a study to initiate the process of land acquisition
for a riverside road up to Kharadi.
The decisions were announced at a meeting held by municipal
commissioner Kunal Kumar, in the presence of local corporators and traffic
department officials. The meeting was also attended by representatives of malls
and IT companies located on the road. Deputy mayor Sidhharth Dhende said they had called for the meeting was
called after repeated accidents, some fatal, were recorded on the road.
Commuters have been complaining every day, Dhende said.
About 18 corporators from Ahmednagar Road and nearby areas
were present at the meeting. The corporators urged the administration to
implement these measures at the earliest and Dhende assured them they would
start in the next 15 days. The representatives of IT companies were willing to
deploy about 40 traffic wardens at prominent chowks to held the traffic police
during peak hours, Dhende said.
The road will also have a metro corridor up to Ramwadi. Dhende
said the PMC plans to prepare a detailed report with MahaMetro in this regard.
Recently, residents of the area held an agitation to draw the civic
authorities' attention to the unsafe travel conditions on the road.
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