PUNE: A 23km stretch from Wagholi to Kondhapuri on the Pune-Ahmednagar freeway will now remain out of the boundaries for heavy automobiles all the way through the peak commuting hours from 5am to 8am and 5pm to 8.30pm daily.
A notification to this effect issued by way of Pune district collector Naval Kishor Ram is aimed at offering a relief from frequent visitors snarls witnessed in this stretch, which is utilized by people to go back and forth to the commercial hubs of Ranjangaon, Shikrapur and Sanaswadi along the busy freeway from Pune.
A couple of junctions at Lonikand and Shikrapur also attach the freeway with the pilgrim the city of Alandi and the commercial hub of Chakan, respectively.
A bulk of the visitors, together with heavy automobiles, moving from areas like Theur and Kesnand in opposition to Alandi and from Shikrapur to Chakan must move the Ahmednagar freeway at those junctions, which ceaselessly causes visitors snarls on both sides of the freeway. The rush generated by way of weekly and daily markets at puts like Koregaon Bhima and Shikrapur contributes to the congestion on the freeway as neatly.
To steer clear of this case all the way through top commuting hours in morning and night time, the commercial bodies have been in the hunt for restrictions on the movement of heavy automobiles. “The collector’s notification will lend a hand in significantly decreasing the peak time congestion of automobiles along this important stretch of the freeway,” an officer from the Pune Rural police mentioned. At least 323 people have died in accidents in this stretch from 2013, he mentioned.
Superintendent of Pune Rural police Sandeep Patil mentioned, “The choice to restrict heavy automobiles all the way through top hours along the freeway has been taken after an elaborate survey.”
Sunil Godse, the Pune Rural police’s visitors in-charge mentioned, “The carriageway of the freeway is fairly slim and roadside encroachments further consume into this house. Most automobiles moving along this stretch barely get a lot house for easy movement. This has also contributed to deadly accidents.”
Over 200 massive, medium and small business units are positioned at the hubs along the freeway, which is used extensively by way of heavy automobiles. As of now, the police have deployed 15 team of workers at vantage points to observe visitors movement along this stretch.
“Wrong-side driving is a huge factor. Many villagers living close to the freeway force their automobiles in other way, posing grave concern to daily commuters. We have applied particular drives, but to no avail. We are contemplating a visitors awareness force in those villages,” assistant police inspector Ramdas Shelke, visitors in-charge of the freeway, mentioned.
The freeway does not have adequate infrastructure, such as visitors indicators, street facet reflectors, caution forums, among others. “We are in the strategy of addressing this factor. There are several punctures created on street dividers both by way of villagers or the ‘dhabha’ owners for his or her comfort and industrial interest. We will plug those punctures quickly,” a senior police officer mentioned. “This factor used to be conveyed to the district administration up to now, but there used to be no motion,” he mentioned, including many deadly accidents took place at those junctions.
A senior supervisor of a non-public company of Ranjangaon MIDC mentioned restriction on heavy automobile movement all the way through top commuting hours is the primary concrete taken by way of the district administration during the last one decade. “To go back and forth 30km, we'd like a minimum of two hours every in the morning and night time hours. On several events, we both needed to put off our crucial conferences or cancel them because of the visitors factor,” he added.
A notification to this effect issued by way of Pune district collector Naval Kishor Ram is aimed at offering a relief from frequent visitors snarls witnessed in this stretch, which is utilized by people to go back and forth to the commercial hubs of Ranjangaon, Shikrapur and Sanaswadi along the busy freeway from Pune.
A couple of junctions at Lonikand and Shikrapur also attach the freeway with the pilgrim the city of Alandi and the commercial hub of Chakan, respectively.
A bulk of the visitors, together with heavy automobiles, moving from areas like Theur and Kesnand in opposition to Alandi and from Shikrapur to Chakan must move the Ahmednagar freeway at those junctions, which ceaselessly causes visitors snarls on both sides of the freeway. The rush generated by way of weekly and daily markets at puts like Koregaon Bhima and Shikrapur contributes to the congestion on the freeway as neatly.
To steer clear of this case all the way through top commuting hours in morning and night time, the commercial bodies have been in the hunt for restrictions on the movement of heavy automobiles. “The collector’s notification will lend a hand in significantly decreasing the peak time congestion of automobiles along this important stretch of the freeway,” an officer from the Pune Rural police mentioned. At least 323 people have died in accidents in this stretch from 2013, he mentioned.
Superintendent of Pune Rural police Sandeep Patil mentioned, “The choice to restrict heavy automobiles all the way through top hours along the freeway has been taken after an elaborate survey.”
Sunil Godse, the Pune Rural police’s visitors in-charge mentioned, “The carriageway of the freeway is fairly slim and roadside encroachments further consume into this house. Most automobiles moving along this stretch barely get a lot house for easy movement. This has also contributed to deadly accidents.”
Over 200 massive, medium and small business units are positioned at the hubs along the freeway, which is used extensively by way of heavy automobiles. As of now, the police have deployed 15 team of workers at vantage points to observe visitors movement along this stretch.
“Wrong-side driving is a huge factor. Many villagers living close to the freeway force their automobiles in other way, posing grave concern to daily commuters. We have applied particular drives, but to no avail. We are contemplating a visitors awareness force in those villages,” assistant police inspector Ramdas Shelke, visitors in-charge of the freeway, mentioned.
The freeway does not have adequate infrastructure, such as visitors indicators, street facet reflectors, caution forums, among others. “We are in the strategy of addressing this factor. There are several punctures created on street dividers both by way of villagers or the ‘dhabha’ owners for his or her comfort and industrial interest. We will plug those punctures quickly,” a senior police officer mentioned. “This factor used to be conveyed to the district administration up to now, but there used to be no motion,” he mentioned, including many deadly accidents took place at those junctions.
A senior supervisor of a non-public company of Ranjangaon MIDC mentioned restriction on heavy automobile movement all the way through top commuting hours is the primary concrete taken by way of the district administration during the last one decade. “To go back and forth 30km, we'd like a minimum of two hours every in the morning and night time hours. On several events, we both needed to put off our crucial conferences or cancel them because of the visitors factor,” he added.
Peak hour curbs on heavy vehicles on highway
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