I may .. for obvious reasons .. not be the proper person to talk about Pune traffic conditions, but I have survived in the same for 22 years. A post by Gautam had me thinking. I came back home after an year last august .. and the traffic was worse if anything. Karve road is congested all hours of the day. One solution I have long been stressing upon is paving the road along the Mutha river-bank and opening it properly. It runs almost parallel to Karve Rd and that part of the same can be made a one-way. It would definitely be the swiftest (and cheapest) solution towards easing the traffic up somewhat. (Let the Rs 5000 crore plan be implemented afterwards). The environmentalists are holding up this plan saying it will harm the 'oxygen channel' running along the river. My foot. Any sane person would'nt call it a river in the first place.. and me thinks the benefits far outweigh the downside here.
Maybe thats why this solution had been on the backburner for so long. The PMC has till date spent crores on a plan of Rs. 5000 crore is benficial for everyone involved isn't it? God knows what percentage will go where, and what the final cost would be. Do you?
Posted by anya at March 21, 2004 10:00 AM | TrackBackYa I agree with u
one of the best roads in Pune has been the JM road.....since it was made 30 years ago the quality of work has been so good that no corporator has got a chance to get it done again and hence make some chai-paani......no wonder the contractor who did JM Road was never ever given a contract by the PMC.....
Posted by: gautam at March 21, 2004 12:57 PMIn the long run though, only efficient public transport will work.
There's no way road widning and new roads are going to keep up with the population explosion.
Posted by: Chinmay at March 21, 2004 02:28 PMYou know it is the same story in Ludhiana also, so many people and so many people with so many vehicles....ludhiana has more no. of cars per population than anywhere in the country..so you can well imagine how the traffic situation would be....there was a plan to construct many fly-overs to solve this traffic problem...with a whopping 7000 crore budget.... it has been 5 years and the fly-overs are half done as there is no money to finish them..........any guesses where did the money go??
anyways, about your question...i'll be darned even if 10% of the 5000 crores reaches where it is meant to...
my eyes have started burning right now just as I imagine myself on a bike in Pune!!
Posted by: Mandar at March 24, 2004 12:58 PMYes its sad, pune wants to call it a competetior to B'lore and H'bad and infrastructure is so sad.
Power goes off every day for few hours, roads are a invisible entity and Construction lobby is taking city for a ride. So many constructions are using illegal corporation water resulting in ppl getting tanker water.
I feel in long run India dosent have future unless & untill Infrastructure is improved else China will crush us with its world class infrastructure.
Posted by: Vijay at January 4, 2006 10:35 AMYes its sad, pune wants to call it a competetior to B'lore and H'bad and infrastructure is so sad.
Power goes off every day for few hours, roads are a invisible entity and Construction lobby is taking city for a ride. So many constructions are using illegal corporation water resulting in ppl getting tanker water.
I feel in long run India dosent have future unless & untill Infrastructure is improved else China will crush us with its world class infrastructure.
Posted by: Vijay at January 4, 2006 11:32 AM