PMC to build flyover near Market Yard to ease snarls
Sarang Dastane| TNN | Feb 25, 2018, 10:47 IST
PUNE: The civic administration is planning to construct a kilometer-long flyover to ease traffic congestion in the Gultekdi-Market Yard area.
The flyover will come up on the Jawaharlal Nehru Road, between Apsara talkies and Maharashtra State Warehousing Corporation. Thousands of motorists who travel towards Market Yard, Bibvewadi and Kondhwa through Nehru Road will be benefited, as they will no longer have to stop at multiple traffic signals.
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has started the tender process for the project. Officials expect to complete the necessary documentation over the next two months, following which the civil work will begin.
The two-lane flyover will be 1,040m long and open to traffic coming from both directions. Each lane will be 4.5 metres wide. The estimated cost of the project is Rs31.77 crore.
Officials in the PMC’s traffic department said the main aim of the flyover is to streamline vehicular movement in the Gultekdi Market Yard area, especially on the arterial roads along Dias Plot, Salisbury Park and Mukundnagar. In addition, there are three major chowks on the Apsara talkies-Market Yard Chowk stretch, which add to the chaos.
They expect nearly half the traffic to use the flyover, thus lessening a great deal of burden on the road. The flyover will also provide vehicles direct access to Market Yard, Bibvewadi, Kondhwa, Gangadham Society.
Source : The Times of India
