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Katraj Zoo Wants 50% More for a Ticket. It Hasn't Finished the Upgrade It's Charging For.
PMC has proposed Katraj Zoo's first ticket-price hike since 2018, alongside a 130-acre redevelopment master plan with a new bird park and new animals. The hike is close to final; the redevelopment isn't.
Hinjewadi Is Getting Six New Roads and 60 Kilometres of Drainage. None of It Exists Yet.
Deputy CM Sunetra Pawar ordered a time-bound plan for six new roads and a 60km drainage network in Hinjewadi. PMRDA's own 20km road package targets a December 1, 2026 start - but the corridor's last big promised road is still six years late.
Pune Cantonment Board Just Raised Parking Fees. Its Own Parking Garage Has Been "Coming Soon" Since 2018.
The Pune Cantonment Board hiked pay-and-park rates across Camp in May 2026. The multi-level parking facility it approved back in 2018 still isn't built, and the contractor isn't answering notices.
Pune Asked Google and Apple to Delete an App. The App Still Works.
Pune's RTO filed an FIR against Rapido, the collector asked police to disable its bike-taxi option, and police asked Google and Apple to pull the app entirely. Rides are still running.
Pune's ₹277-Crore Double-Decker Flyover Opened in March. The Road Feeding Into It Is Still Being Widened.
The SPPU Chowk double-decker flyover opened in March 2026 to ease Ganeshkhind Road's worst junction. The road itself is still being widened in phases, with the next 2-kilometre stretch only now getting underway.
Pune Built Roughly 83km of Cycle Tracks. An Audit Found Only 11% of Them Are Actually Usable.
Parisar's independent audit of Pune's cycle tracks found only 11% of segments usable, with a fifth having stretches where the track vanishes entirely. PMC's own encroachment-clearance drives haven't kept the problem from coming back.
Hadapsar-Wagholi Has No Metro and No BRT. In July, PMPML Promised a Trial Bus. Nothing Since.
PMPML's July 2026 double-decker e-bus trial targeted routes like Hadapsar-Wagholi that have zero Metro or BRT coverage. Three months on, there's no reported result - and a separate report says the utility has paused its broader double-decker buying plans over battery issues.
63,000 Tanker Trips in One Month. Five of Them Ended in a Fatal Crash.
Pune's water tankers made roughly 63,000 trips in April 2026. The same month, five of those trips ended in a fatal crash - including two deaths 48 hours apart. The scale of the city's tanker dependency is becoming a road-safety story, not just a water-supply one.
Three Serious Incidents in Five Days. Then Sinhagad Capped How Many Tourists Can Be There at Once.
A stone-pelting brawl on Independence Day. A clothing-related assault on a family the next day. Four days later, Sinhagad Fort announced it will cap how many tourists can be there at once - the second crowd-control measure tried here in a year.
PMC Says the Riverfront Is Basically Done. The Trees It Needed to Cut Are Still Being Argued Over.
PMC says most of the Mula-Mutha riverfront project is built. A 163-tree felling proposal needed for the next stretch is still stuck exactly where a four-hour public hearing left it in May - with no approval, no rejection, and no update since.
The Baramati Trip Got Cancelled. Pune Metro Line 3 Is Opening Anyway, By Video Link, on November 3.
The Prime Minister's trip that Hinjewadi had quietly pinned its hopes on was called off three weeks ago. It turns out that trip was never the plan. Pune Metro Line 3 is now set for a virtual inauguration from Balewadi Stadium on November 3, with Modi joining by video, not by road.
Pune Metro Line 3's Opening Was Riding on a Trip to Baramati. That Trip Just Got Called Off.
Nobody officially said the Hinjewadi-Shivajinagar metro's launch was pinned to a Prime Minister's unrelated visit to Baramati on November 3. Now that visit is postponed, and the date that was never official has quietly gotten less likely too.