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Road that caused all the suffering will be ready... after the eventBy Dr arvind, Section Roads in Pune
The special route for the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) will hardly be used by those for whom it was intended. Only a handful of participants will take the special route from the airport to Balewadi; the rest will travel take the expressway from Mumbai.
A last-minute patch-up job is all the roads are getting, instead of the complete makeover that was originally planned. The patch-up, which is nearly complete, aims only to make the roads usable. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has suspended construction work and is now beautifying the roads. Nearly 80 per cent of the foreign participants will travel directly from Mumbai to the sports village, organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi said. Another official said 25 buses would ferry 2,000 participants from the Mumbai international airport to the sports village. The rest, along with Indian participants, delegates and guests, will use the special route after landing at the Pune airport. Civic activist Vivek Velankar is aghast, given what citizens had gone through. "After the civic administration made citizens suffer for the roadwork, the foreign participants are taking the expressway. What was the rush all about?" he said. He pointed out that crores had been spent on the roadwork and questioned its quality. Click on "Full Story" for more...
The administration had planned a special route from Pune airport to the sports complex via Bund Garden and Ganeshkhind Road. Work on Airport Road is nearly done but the Baner Road stretch remains although six contractors were appointed to speed up work.
The PMC is tarring a 2-km stretch instead of laying it in concrete. Under criticism for the slow pace of work, the civic administration recently made it clear that the road, the main route from the city to the sports village, would not be redone completely but merely made usable for the Youth Games. "Baner Road has got a facelift and the 2-kilometre stretch has been tarred for lack of time. It will be laid in concrete after the Games," said city engineer Prashant Waghmare, who is overseeing the work on the road. "The subway crossing the Mumbai-Bangalore highway is complete and will be opened before the Games. Whatever work was possible, we have completed in record time." "The PMC is racing against time and the civic staff has put in all its efforts. We are ready for the Games and have taken up the last-minute work of beautification," Municipal Commissioner Praveensinh Pardeshi said. TIE
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