PUNE: Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday mooted an idea to run broad gauge metro rail up to Satara, Ahmednagar, Lonavla and Solapur to help develop these towns as satellite cities and thereby decongest Pune city and its surrounding area.
“The city cannot bear additional pressure. A time has come to decongest the city by restricting population growth and moving some activities out of the city area to other nearby places,” Gadkari said while speaking at a function “Pune Superfast” organised by the Maharashtra Times.

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