Mumbai Pune Expressway: The increasing traffic congestion on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway has now become a headache for everyone. Whether it’s a weekend, a festive season or an accident, long queues of vehicles on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway have become a common sight. In addition, the administration has really woken up as the traffic was stopped for almost 32 hours due to the tanker overturning on this highway last month. Against this backdrop, the Uran-Karjat-Shirur highway proposal, pending in the ministry for many years, came under discussion again and has finally gained momentum. The state government has decided to build this highway on ‘build-operate-transfer’ (BOT) basis, and the cost is expected to be around Rs. 12 thousand crores.
In fact, a report on this route was prepared a few years ago. The administration had made it clear that an alternate highway was essential to ease the strain on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. But this proposal remained in the dust in the ministry itself. Meanwhile, former minister Jayant Patil and other MLAs repeatedly raised the issue and drew the attention of the government. Common citizens, industrialists and transport professionals were suffering due to increasing traffic jams. Finally, the government gave the green light to this highway. The government gave important information about this project and informed that we are going to build this highway on BOT basis. 12 thousand crore rupees are likely to be spent on the Uran-Karjat-Shirur highway.
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The Sahyadri mountain range stands as a strong barrier between the Konkan and the plateau in the geographical structure of Maharashtra. One has to depend on ghat routes to go from the coast to western Maharashtra. Roads have been taken from 14 ghats such as Kasara Ghat, Malshej Ghat, Naneghat, Bhor Ghat, Tamini Ghat, Varandha Ghat, Amba Ghat, Gaganbawda Ghat. Most ghats are 15–20 km apart. But between Malshej Ghat and Bhor Ghat (Borghat) in Lonavala there is a long stretch of 70-80 km. The traffic stress is highest on this stretch. Mumbai Pune Expressway
Thousands of containers departing from Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, MMR area as well as JNPT leave for Pune, Ahmednagar, Solapur, Satara, Sangli as well as Hyderabad and Bangalore every day. All this traffic currently mainly goes through the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. This creates constant stress on this pathway. Construction of the new Uran-Karjat-Shirur highway will provide an independent and faster route for freight traffic. As a result, passenger traffic on the expressway will also become easier.
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