With a long holiday weekend around the corner, motorists travelling to Lonavala and Pune were caught in a massive traffic jam on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Thursday late night and Friday morning.
With a long holiday weekend around the corner, motorists travelling to Lonavala and Pune were caught in a massive traffic jam on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Thursday late night and Friday morning.
The state highway traffic police said that the bottleneck of traffic increased as a tanker had broken down on Pune bound lane between Khandala and Lonavala. The state highway traffic police, however, said that traffic movement was smooth moving on Mumbai bound lane of Expressway including the Mumbai-Goa Highway.
"Number of vehicles travelling during long weekends is already high on Expressway considering people moving towards Khandala, Lonavala, Pune, and further to Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani. But on Thursday night a tanker had broken down between Khandala and Lonavala which had its cascading effect until Friday morning and because of which traffic had piled up," said a state highway traffic police official.
However, traffic movement in the city and the five entry and exit points of Mumbai was smooth on Friday. A Mumbai traffic police official, said, "The traffic movement was very thing till Friday evening due to Holi but there was heavy traffic movement on Thursday evening and late night as many left the city owing to a long weekend."
Similarly, traffic movement had gone off track for four hours on February 25 due to trailer breaking down on the ghat section of the Mumbai Pune Expressway. The bottleneck on the ghat section increases due to it being narrow compared to the rest of Expressway.
The state government is currently in the process of commencing work for augmentation of the Mumbai Pune Expressway that is being used by almost 50,000 vehicles every day.
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