Pune Approved a ₹73.52 Crore Flyover for Shivajinagar. It Still Needs One More Signature.

The Pune Municipal Corporation's Standing Committee cleared a ₹73.52 crore flyover and grade separator for Shivajinagar in July this year — a project meant to fix one of the city's longest-running daily headaches. It still hasn't gone anywhere, because Standing Committee approval isn't the same thing as a project you can build. It still needs to clear the General Body before a single pillar goes up.

The stretch this is actually meant to fix

The flyover runs between Sakhar Sankul and the Old Pune-Mumbai Road, and if you drive through Shivajinagar regularly, the list of junctions it's meant to relieve will sound familiar: the Agricultural College stretch, Simla Office Chowk, the Sancheti Hospital junction, and the COEP intersection. These aren't obscure side streets — this is the corridor that funnels traffic between Shivajinagar railway station, the university area, and the Pune-Mumbai highway approach, and it backs up predictably every single working day.

18 months, minus the part of the year nothing gets built

Once the General Body does sign off, PMC's own estimate is 18 months to completion — explicitly excluding the monsoon, when construction on projects like this effectively stops. That's not a cynical read; it's how the timeline was presented. Which means even in the best case — approval tomorrow, no delays, no utility-relocation surprises — this flyover doesn't open before sometime in 2028, once you account for at least one monsoon sitting in the middle of that 18-month clock.

What "still needs approval" means for anyone driving through here now

Nothing changes about your daily commute through Shivajinagar for at least the next year and a half, and that's assuming the General Body approves it without the kind of revision or re-tender that's delayed comparable Pune flyover projects before. If you're one of the people navigating the Sancheti Hospital junction or the COEP stretch every morning, the honest takeaway isn't "relief is coming" — it's "relief has a proposal, pending a second approval, pending a build, pending a timeline that hasn't started yet."

In the meantime, this is exactly the kind of corridor where a fixed carpool makes more sense than a daily solo crawl through the same chokepoints — if your route through Shivajinagar hasn't changed in months and isn't about to change for years, splitting the Sancheti Hospital-to-COEP stretch with someone on the same commute costs you nothing extra in time you're already losing to the junction anyway.