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Why a Closed Level Crossing in Khadki Takes Three Days to Fix
A routine railway maintenance closure in Khadki turned into a three-day, multi-agency event - because the neighbourhood has been stuck in cantonment-board limbo for over a year, waiting on a merger with Pune that still hasn't happened.
A Radio Telescope Just Killed the Direct Pune-Nashik Train Line
Five years of land acquisition, a 234km direct line, scrapped because of a radio telescope near Narayangaon. The rerouted Pune-Nashik line now goes via Ahilyanagar and Shirdi - and Nashik isn't happy about it.
Pune's Airport Can't Fit Wide-Body Jets, and the Fix Is Stuck Between Two Ministries
Pune may have lost nearly 100 Global Capability Centres because Lohegaon still can't handle wide-bodied aircraft. The fix needs 300 acres from the Air Force - and the access road meant to compensate for it took six years just to get financial clearance.
Pune Metro Line 3 Has Missed 8 Opening Dates Since May. Date 9 Now Depends on an Election.
The Hinjewadi-Shivajinagar metro has been technically cleared to carry passengers since July 23. Ten weeks later, it still hasn't carried one - and the reason has shifted from "paperwork" to "the Election Commission."
Pune's HCMTR Has Been "Coming Soon" Since 1987. Is This Time Different?
CM Fadnavis wants tenders out by November for the 43.6-km HCMTR corridor — a project that's been on Pune's development plan since 1987. Here's what's actually changed, and what hasn't.
Pune Airport's New Terminal Is a Genuine Upgrade. The Road to It Still Isn't.
Lohegaon's new 52,000-sq-m terminal pushed Pune's passenger capacity to 9 million a year — but the single access road and parking apron feeding it haven't grown an inch, and commuters are the ones absorbing the gap.
Bindu Madhav Chowk: Pune's ₹115-Crore Flyover Fix Is Still Mostly a Tender Document
Every evening, Khadki's traffic, Bund Garden Road, Sangamwadi Road and the BRTS corridor all collide at one Yerawada signal. PMC's ₹115.73-crore flyover plan for Bindu Madhav Balasaheb Thackeray Chowk is real — but as of October 2026, it's barely off paper.
Pune Is Officially Building a "Netherworld" — Here's What's Actually Under It
The state just cleared a special vehicle to build Pune's "Patal Lok" tunnel plan — three very real, very different road tunnels. The underworld name is just wordplay; the engineering is the actual story.
One Landslide, Three Tracks Down: What the Lonavala Ghat Washout Revealed About Pune's Railway
A July 2026 landslide near Khandala knocked out all three lines on the Mumbai-Pune ghat in one night — exposing a Pune-Lonavala corridor that was already running at 119% capacity before the hillside gave way.
Swargate Has Three Transit Systems Colliding at One Gate — A New Terminal Wants to Untangle Them
MSRTC alone runs an estimated 1,800 buses a day through Swargate, on top of PMPML, BRTS, and the Metro — all converging on one overloaded junction. A ₹22-crore, 9-platform terminal behind the Metro station is the first real attempt to pull that knot apart.
The Arithmetic PMPML Can't Make Close: 2,000 New Buses, 13 Depots
PMPML is nearly doubling its bus fleet while still parking vehicles on roadsides overnight because its 13 depots ran out of room years ago. Here's the actual math behind the shortage — and why Pune commuters are filling the gap themselves.
15 Years, One Road, Zero Finish Line: What the Shivane-Kharadi Riverbed Road Teaches Pune About Promises
Pune Municipal Corporation approved a 22-km riverbed road linking Shivane to Kharadi back in February 2011. Fifteen years, multiple "reviews," and one new land-acquisition drive later, the gaps that choke Vadgaonsheri traffic are still gaps — a timeline worth tracing before anyone calls this latest update progress.