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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.
2 Lanes, 10 Metres, One River: What's Actually Happening With Pune's New Koregaon Park-Kalyani Nagar Bridge
PMC's second bridge across the Mula-Mutha, running parallel to the Aga Khan Bridge, is past its original 18-24 month target with no confirmed opening date. Here's what the numbers say, and why the crossing was needed in the first place.
How Do You Build a Bridge Over 240 Trains a Day? Inside Pune's Sadhu Vaswani Puzzle
The Sadhu Vaswani railway overpass linking Koregaon Park to Cantonment isn't just delayed infrastructure — it's a genuinely tricky engineering problem involving a 54-metre girder and a railway line that never stops running.
Ghorpadi's Flyover Was Supposed to Open by May. It's October, and the Paint Isn't Dry.
Two and a half years of construction over the Miraj railway line, a completion date that slipped from May to now January 2027, and a corridor - Ghorpadi, Mundhwa, Koregaon Park, Kharadi, the Cantonment - that's spent every bit of that time stuck at the same level crossing.
Pashan Circle Can't Be Widened. The Army Owns the Land on Both Sides.
Sus and Bavdhan have grown fast enough to overwhelm Pashan Circle's capacity years ago. PMC's answer - a grade separator, a widened junction, a traffic island - sounds straightforward, until you remember the road narrows right where a 150-acre defence testing range sits on one side. This is what a traffic fix looks like when the usual fix, more road, isn't actually available.
Pune Station Is Getting Six New Platforms. For Three Years, Getting There Gets Harder First.
Work on Pune Junction's long-delayed yard remodelling finally started in June 2026 - six new platforms, a third entry gate, and a plan to double how many passengers the station can handle. It's a genuinely good project. It also means three years of active construction squeezed into the same access roads everyone already fights over.
Alandi Road's Bus Lane Removal Was Supposed to Take 'A Few More Days.' That Was in July
PMC began tearing out the last BRT corridor in the city, on Alandi Road, on July 3, 2026. The first 500 metres came out fast. The remaining three kilometres to Phulenagar were due 'in the coming days.' Three months later, there's no public update on the rest.
Five Traffic Signals Were Supposed to Go Up in Balewadi This Week. Here's the 500-Cars-an-Hour Problem They're Meant to Fix
Balewadi High Street's lanes choke every evening between 7:30 and 9pm - infrastructure built for a fraction of the roughly 500 cars that actually arrive. On October 2, 2026, PMC inspected five junctions for new signals, promised within four days. Here's what that promise is actually up against.