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Residents frustrated over poor, unsafe road conditions in Pune locality
Residents find it difficult to commute on the narrow, encroached, potholed and unsafe road in Pune’s Kondhwa area
Pune: Pedestrians face a tough time commuting from Gangadham to Kondhwa road as the entire stretch is in poor condition. Residents said that road repairs and extension work is going on for last two years and still it is not completed. The local residents’ forum has raised the issue with Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Pune traffic police department many times, but to no avail. “We live on the Gangadham to Kondhwa road stretch passing through the Aai Mata Mandir chowk. Many new residential housing societies have come up on this stretch in the last few years. The road widening work is a long pending issue. It has not been completed since last two years. We have many times written to the authorities to complete the road extension work as it is dangerous for traffic movement,” said Atul Jain, resident and member of Kondhwa Development Forum.
There are various issues which the residents have raised, including road widening pending since more than five years, no streetlights and bottleneck near the Aai Mata Mandir chowk, vegetable and roadside vendors encroaching road and leaving less space for traffic movement. Heavy vehicle movement and its parking also poses risk to pedestrians and vehicle users.
Another resident Bipin Gandhi said, “I daily travel by this road for my work and it’s a nightmare with traffic jams during peak hours, garbage lying on road and encroachment by illegal hawkers. If we are paying taxes to PMC, then it is their responsibility to provide us with better and safe roads to travel.”
Jyoti Dhotre, ward officer of Kondhwa-Yewalewadi, has assured the residents’ forum to take necessary action to repair the road and make safety arrangements. “We have received a letter from residents on the Gangadham-Kondhwa road issue and we will be working on it,” she said.
