The Union ministry for Road Transport and Highways has finally given a green signal for the construction of 13 new ROBs in Pune out of the total 252 ROBs sanctioned for Maharashtra at a cost of Rs.6,000 crore. College of Engineering, Pune (CoEP) has been assigned the task of designing these bridges, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said that the ROBs will come up at Khadki, Pimpri and Talegaon along the old Mumbai-Pune highway. Some of the other routes where the ROBs have been finalized include Katraj-Kondhwa, Theur Phata- Lonikhand, Pune-Saswad, Talegaon-Chakan-Shikharapur, Lonavala-Pune-Shelarwadi and Pune-Daund, among others.
