Implement Long-Term Measures to Resolve Pune’s Traffic Congestion – CM Devendra Fadnavis

Presentation of the ‘Pune City Comprehensive Mobility Plan’

Pune, Aug 2025 : The Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad Comprehensive Mobility Plan should be finalized with proper coordination among all concerned departments. An integrated blueprint should be prepared for grade separators, ring road separators, and tunnel separators. While addressing traffic congestion, long-term solutions should be planned keeping the next 30 years in mind, directed Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

He was speaking at the presentation of the ‘Pune City Comprehensive Mobility Plan’ organized by MahaMetro at the Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration. The meeting was attended by Deputy CM and Guardian Minister of the district Ajit Pawar, Union Minister of State for Cooperation Murlidhar Mohol, State Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Dada Patil, Mitra CEO Praveensingh Pardeshi, Chief Secretary Rajesh Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Iqbal Singh Chahal, DGP Rashmi Shukla, Principal Secretary Ashwini Bhide, MahaMetro MD Shravan Hardikar, and other dignitaries.

Fadnavis said the mobility plan is worth ₹1.3 lakh crore, with an investment of ₹62,000 crore in the first phase. The target is to increase the share of public transport to 30% in the first phase and then to 50%. The plan should ensure that public transport is available within 500 meters for every citizen. Responsibilities of each department should be clearly defined. Planning should aim to increase the average speed limit in metropolitan areas to 30 km/h, he added.

Ajit Pawar said the government is working to resolve traffic congestion in Pune by expanding the Pune Metro network. The plan includes a proposed metro line from Hadapsar to Loni Kalbhor. Considering Pune’s growing population and congestion on the Pune-Solapur highway, Pawar suggested considering an extension from Hadapsar to Uruli Kanchan instead. He also emphasized planning for water supply needs for the rapidly urbanizing Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad cities.

Shravan Hardikar informed that the earlier mobility plan was prepared in 2018, and the revised plan incorporates projections for 2054 regarding population growth, road accidents, urbanization, PMPML bus network and depots, metro expansion, BRTS corridors, an outer ring road for Purandar airport, ring roads, missing link projects, cycling networks, main market routes, truck terminals, logistics hubs, multi-modal integration hubs, public transport hubs, tourism development, employment generation, and growth in the IT sector, covering an area of 2,550 sq km. The plan has been submitted to the state government for approval.

Municipal commissioners Ram and Singh presented traffic management plans for Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad, while Police Commissioners Amitesh Kumar and Vinay Kumar Choubey shared measures being implemented to address congestion in the metropolitan areas.

The meeting was also attended by MLAs Yogesh Tilak, Bhimrao Tapkir, Bapusaheb Pathare, Hemant Rasane, Divisional Commissioner Dr. Chandrakant Pulkundwar, Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar, Pune Municipal Commissioner Nawal Kishore Ram, Pimpri-Chinchwad Police Commissioner Vinay Kumar Choubey, Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Commissioner Shekhar Singh, PMRDA CEO Yogesh Mhase, District Collector Jitendra Dudi, and Zilla Parishad CEO Gajanan Patil.