June Roads News Today

The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has 1,375-kilometre of roads under its jurisdiction.

The earlier Road Development and Road Maintenance Committee was active till 2019 but it has not been functional since the Covid pandemic hit the world in 2020.

An FIR has been lodged and the accused youngsters. The incident reportedly took place on New Year’s Day.

This contrasting pattern in driving licence issuance and vehicle registrations raises questions about the dynamics of transportation preferences and regulatory factors in Pune.

The city’s biggest problem-traffic congestion-worsened in 2023 but also drove the traffic police to come up with some innovative measures.

In a PIL plea, activists Qaneez Sukhrani and Pushkar Kulkarni alleged there was gross negligence in repairing, maintaining and layering roads.

The 136.80-km-long Outer Pune Ring Road is being constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 15,857 crore to help decongest Pune roads by diverting outbound traffic.

In the second part of the series, we take a look at some prominent sections at Pune-Ahmednagar Road and Pimpri Chowk.

The traffic park in Aundh is only getting about 600 visits a month from school children as opposed to the intended target of 1,600.

The court says that if negotiations with landowners have failed, the municipal corporation should ‘initiate the process of compulsory acquisition’.