Public Transport

Several crores are spent in Pune for BRT project however it is interesting to see the current status of BRT – Bus Rapid Transit System offered to Puneties. The BRT runs on Swargate to Katraj Route and and also on Swargate to Hadapsar route. The basic requirements of a BRTS is lacking in the pilot project. […]

The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) has launched a special bus service for women on three routes. The transport body had tried to introduce the special bus service for women a few years ago, but it failed due to low response. Hence, School students are also allowed in this bus to get maximum income

Sakal Times and Sakal Media group’s has taken an initiative ‘Pune Bus Day’. The idea is to demonstrate to everybody how the use of optimum number of buses with high frequency can actually reduce the traffic congestion in the city. City mayor, Vaishali Bankar appealed to the citizens to participate in the project and assured

The Chrysalis Foundation had organized an event to clean the PMPML buses at Swargate bus depot on 20th October 2012 at 8:30 pm till morning. Around 100 entrepreneurs, professionals, students and housewives, all after a hard day’s work, had come together and clean the buses at Swargate bus depot. The entire event had been managed

Pune’s ‘Bus Day’ is a great social event. Most of the Punekars take active participation in  bus day by discarding self-owned private vehicles to solve the worsening traffic mess. There was was minimum traffic on Paud road, Nulstop, Karve road in prime morning time. Private and PMPML buses were all clean and on time. There

सार्वजनिक वाहतुकीचा जास्तीत जास्त वापर करण्याचा संदेश पोचविण्यासाठी काल पुण्यात ‘बस डे ‘ राबविण्यात आला. या निमित्ताने पुणेकरांनी आपली खाजगी वाहने सोडून बस ने प्रवास करायचा प्रयत्न केला, परंतु या उपक्रमाला नागरिकांनी संमिश्र प्रतिसाद दिला. शहरातील काही भागात वाहतूक सुरळीत चालू होती परंतु काही ठिकाणी अतिरिक्त बसेस मुळे वाहतुकीची कोंडी निर्माण झाली होती. डेक्कन स्थानका

Because of unmarked Pune MahanagarParivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) bus stop and double parking on a narrow road the newly-renovated Kamala Nehru hospital’s gate is facing huge traffic problem in the Mangalwar Peth area.  There used to be a bus stop outside the hospital. Not in front of the main gate, but a bit ahead. Now,

Pune has emerged as one of the fastest growing cities in the country. The city which was originally situated on the banks of Mutha river is now expanding in every direction. However, the major problem in terms of development is strengthening of city’s public transport. While the population of Pune is ever growing, city’s only

If you travel by bus and wonder why they are consistently running late, it’s because the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) are short of both staff and buses. Currently, PMPML has around 1,875busesandaround1,350 busesrun daily on the roads with 3,346 drivers, 4,937 conductors and 1,398 staff in the PMPML workshop. This means there are

The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) has proposed to hike its fare by Re1. With this hike, the minimum fare has gone up to Rs 5 and maximum Rs34. This is the second fare hike by the PMPML over the last five months. The board of directors of the PMPML proposed the hike following