Vital issues on Metro yet to be addressed
Jan 21 2013, 03:29 IST
According to reports, the Central government has given green signal for Pune Metro and has asked Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to submit final detailed project report with revised costing after approval from state government. At the outset, we would clarify that we are not against any transport system project (BRT, mono rail, metro). However, we have found from our study that DMRC report for Pune Metro has not addressed several vital issues that are area specific. It appears that the only aspect that DMRC has considered while deciding feasibility of elevated Metro on Vanaz -Ramwadi corridor is whether the metro columns and metro stations can be physically constructed at planned locations. These issues become important as the proposed elevated metro passes through developed areas and highly congested arterial roads of the city where further road widening is not possible and alternative roads for traffic diversion are also not available. This is bound to give rise to several serious problems. We and other groups, including experts, have been raising all such issues with PMC and subsequently with the state government for over three years. However, our demands have been ignored.
We have some straight questions for PMC:
1) As per DMRC report, the starting station for Metro has been planned at Paud Road kachara depot. With ‘Shivshrushti’ project approved at the depot site and area beyond being hilly with BDP reservation - Where and how will the main Metro station at the starting point be set up?
2) With the congested
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Why not criticize PMC ?
Sunil Datar | 21-Jan-2013Reply | Forward Mahendra, you have no idea how PMC works and innocent people like you can be easily fooled by politicians. Just remember, the whole government machinary's eye is on the bribes to be collected, there is not a shred of intelligence existing in PMC. The living proof of that is the University flyover. I was myself thinking when they were building it as to what the idea is. Then it became clear, there was none. When a wall constructed in the Mutha river collapsed, the inquiry committee asked the corporation civil engineer, what soil bearing capacity had they assumed in the design. The idiots asked "Sir, what is bearing capacity?". The retards and crooks have virtually surrounded all honest and intelligent people in this city and country. If, some of those honest and intelligent people are raising some valid issues, the least you can do is support them.
Solution to University Fly Over
Mahendra | 21-Jan-2013Reply | Forward As to the University flyover, PMC has acquired the university land and is in process of widening the road! As to the flyover on the university road, it has served its purpose and if you are referring to its not being a two way bridge while coming from Aundh, then the same people would have dragged the PMC to the court for either damanging the facade of University chowk or maybe for causing ecological imbalance by damaging the surrounding hills! As to Metro, If it is being monitored by DMRC then it is in the right hands please STOP masquerading as experts by doubting the real experts!
Rubbish
Mahendra | 21-Jan-2013Reply | Forward All these honest and intellegent people are doing is increasing the cost of an inevitable project that will one day have to be done either way! Considering the judgement of the court in case of the River road you need not tell me about honest and Dishonest people. As to the Metro project, a completely different company will be established to complete the project as recommended by DMRC. If these so called honest people are intelligent then are you saying that DMRC, a company involved in running the most successfull metro system in India are fools?
