Posts Tagged ‘traffic’

Bus, I’ll take a bus today

With the ‘Pune Bus Day’ kicking off in the city, people have been taking buses to get to their destinations. Supporting the movement for organised transport and reducing traffic jams, many Punekars have left their private vehicles at home and have taken buses to their respective destinations. For...
November 1st, 2012 | Events & Happenings | Read More

More fatalities on city roads than on highway stretches

Times Of India:As many as 1,677 people died in accidents on roads in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad between 2006 and 2011, statistics compiled by the traffic police have revealed. As against this, the fatalities on the highway stretches passing through Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad were around half the number...
February 3rd, 2012 | News | Read More

Open Letter [1]: Dear PMC

Dear PMC, It was heartening to read of your plan to construct a Sachin Tendulkar museum in Pune. For a city that has few modern day monuments of note, it is indeed a good project to drive tourism and give the city a place in cricket’s present and future. The cost of the project is being pitted...
June 24th, 2011 | From the Editor, Views | Read More

Speedbreakers, a major cause of accidents in the city

Pune Mirror: While speedbreakers are ideally built to prevent possible freak accidents, ironically enough here, there exist several that seem to be the actual root cause of many road mishaps.
May 6th, 2011 | News | Read More

Two-wheeler accidents increase in the city

Indian Express: Two-wheelers seem to be fast becoming a curse in the city. Of the 64 fatal two-wheeler accidents occurred in the last three months, as many as 38 (around 60 per cent) mishaps happened during the rush hours. A majority of them, around 61, lost lives since they had not worn helmets and...
April 11th, 2011 | News | Read More

Private or Public – Whose property is it?

Walking around Pune, one is forced to think what if all the property and other utilities are privatised or belong to the masses? I see so many public places and even historical places being covered with filth and posters of varied companies.  The infrastructure of the city has already gone for a toss...
February 23rd, 2011 | Views | Read More

City, rural police, facing manpower crunch to handle traffic problems

Times of India: As the city’s geographical limits expand by leaps and bounds, managing traffic is no longer a headache just for the city police personnel but also for their rural counterparts. This, because nearly 30 per cent of land under the municipal administration, mostly the fringe areas of...
February 2nd, 2011 | News | Read More

Drunk driving will cost licence soon

Times of India: Soon, anyone caught driving in an inebriated condition will lose his or her licence as the state government is gearing up to amend the traffic rules in view of rising cases of drunk driving.
January 17th, 2011 | News | Read More

City to get 372 new autorickshaw stands

Times of India: Following an increase in the number of autorickshaws in the city and the demand from autorickshaw unions to identify new autorickshaw stands, the number of stands in the city will now go up by 372.
November 8th, 2010 | News | Read More

City traffic branch to hold contest to choose web design

Times of India: The Pune traffic branch is organising a web design contest for citizens including students, and IT professionals, that will help it select the right design for its proposed website on the city’s traffic. Giving details of the contest, DCP traffic Manoj Patil on Thursday stated that...
October 29th, 2010 | Info Guide | Read More
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