The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) will issue tenders next month for a detailed project report (DPR) on the proposed 170-km ring road that would connect the fringe areas of Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad once the Lok Sabha election code of conduct ends.
The agency will issue global tenders in June and will complete the process within at few months. A consultancy firm will prepare the DPR, which will take a year. In early 2012, the MSRDC had issued a global tender inviting bids for consultancy services for the study and preparation of the DPR with preliminary estimates and design.
The ring road is being planned to smoothen traffic in and around Pune which has increased alarmingly due to industrial and socio-economic development.
Vehicular traffic from Mumbai-Pune-Solapur highway and roads like Pune-Nashik, Pune-Ahmednagar and Pune-Satara pass through the city which leads to traffic congestion. According to the MSRDC, if this traffic is diverted from outside the city through a road network, it will reduce traffic problems in the core areas.
The Development Plan (DP) for 1987 had earmarked two internal ring roads, one passing through the Peth areas and the other on the fringes and a High Capacity Mass Transit Route route connecting Bopodi and Hadapsar.
These plans never worked because much of the land reserved for HCMTR has been dereserved while the land acquisition for the inner ring road is difficult because of large-scale development in the city.
The agency will issue global tenders in June and will complete the process within at few months. A consultancy firm will prepare the DPR, which will take a year. In early 2012, the MSRDC had issued a global tender inviting bids for consultancy services for the study and preparation of the DPR with preliminary estimates and design.
The ring road is being planned to smoothen traffic in and around Pune which has increased alarmingly due to industrial and socio-economic development.
Vehicular traffic from Mumbai-Pune-Solapur highway and roads like Pune-Nashik, Pune-Ahmednagar and Pune-Satara pass through the city which leads to traffic congestion. According to the MSRDC, if this traffic is diverted from outside the city through a road network, it will reduce traffic problems in the core areas.
The Development Plan (DP) for 1987 had earmarked two internal ring roads, one passing through the Peth areas and the other on the fringes and a High Capacity Mass Transit Route route connecting Bopodi and Hadapsar.
These plans never worked because much of the land reserved for HCMTR has been dereserved while the land acquisition for the inner ring road is difficult because of large-scale development in the city.
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