The second package is for the construction of 36.73 km of the road from Soratawadi on Pune Solapur stretch to Varve on Satara Road involving ₹4,495.45 crore investment, which includes three interchanges, six tunnels, 10 viaducts, one railway over bridge and two underpasses.
The third package of 38.340 km from Urse on Pune-Mumbai Expressway to Solu on AlandiMarkal Road will cost ₹6,635.86 crore and includes four interchanges, one railway over bridge, two river bridges and 28 underpasses.
The fourth package is for the construction of 68.8 km road from Urse on Pune-Mumbai Expressway to Varve on Satara Road entails ₹12,176 crore and comprises six interchanges, eight tunnels, two viaducts, three river bridges and 56 underpasses.
Before this, the basic infrastructure committee of the state government had approved the process for the implementation of the project. The mega project will decongest roads by diverting traffic that passes through Pune en route to other areas in the state. The existing roads in the city cannot be widened due to the dense urban area and the air as well as sound pollution has crossed its higher limits. The interstate and local traffic flow are high in the city as three major national highways, Mumbai-Bangalore, Mumbai-Hyderabad-Vijayawada and Pune-Nashik, and new national highways, Pune-Pandharpur, Pune-Aurangabad and Pune-Mangaon, crisscross the city.
