Dehu-Alandi Road to become 6-lane

In a bid to deal with traffic congestion on the temple-town roads of Dehu and Alandi, the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has decided to expand the existing two-lane road to six lanes.

Under the project, for which the civic administration has floated a Rs96-crore tender, Dehugaon to Moshi-Jadhavwadi stretch will be widened in the first phase.

In the second phase, Moshi-Jadhavwadi to Alandigaon roads will be widened into six lanes.

PCMC had earlier planned bus rapid transit system (BRTS) on Kalewadi-Dehu-Alandi route under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

Speaking to DNA, JNNURM cell coordinator of PCMC, Nilkanth Poman said, “The new plan does not mean that the proposed BRTS routes have been scrapped. The provision for BRTS routes will be made later,” he said.

Poman added that the civic body had already started the work of BRTS routes of Kalewadi Phata-Dehu-Alandi from Kalewadi Phata.

Executive engineer Satish Ingle said the Dehu-Alandi route was of nearly 14.77 km, and the existing width of the road was 9 metres.

After its widening into six lanes, it will become 30 metres.

PCMC is developing four BRTS routes in the municipal limits under JNNURM — Nigdi-Dapodi on the Pune-Mumbai highway, Aundh-Ravet Road, Kalewadi Phata-Dehu-Alandi Road and Wakad-Nashik Phata.

The civic body have not yet received funds for Kalewadi Phata-Dehu-Alandi routes under JNNURM, Poman said.