More delay as work on Nigdi-Kiwale BRTS road runs into space obstacles
Updated: Mar 31, 2018, 09:30 IST
PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: A delay in land acquisition may have a domino effect on the under-construction Bhakti-Shakti Chowk-Kiwale Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) road.
The key road is being developed by Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation to improve the city’s north-south connectivity. But work has been held up due to problems in acquiring land in one section of the corridor. According to officials, the entire project will be completed eight months after the land in question is acquired.
The 5km-long corridor connects Bhakti Shakti chowk on the Pune-Mumbai highway in Nigdi to Mukai chowk on Sangvi-Kiwale BRTS road. Once complete, this road will link the other two BRTS routes — Pune-Mumbai highway and Sangvi-Kiwale road.
At the moment, if one has to go from Nigdi to Ravet or Kiwale, then one must cross the railway tracks through the underpass neat Akurdi railway station and then proceed to one’s destination over the Sangvi-Kiwale BRTS road, making it a circuitous route. PCMC came up with this new route as a solution.
Source : The Times Of India
