MUMBAI: State transport commissioner Vivek Bhimanwar on Friday launched a special three-month drive to nab those speeding, lane-cutting, speaking on mobile phones and not wearing seat belts on Mumbai-Pune highways and also Pune-Kolhapur highway.
“During our earlier enforcement drive on Mumbai-Pune Expressway and old highway between December 2022 and May 2023,, we had caught over 47,000 traffic violators and fatalities on the corridor had dropped significantly. We plan to run another major drive on this corridor and also on Pune-Kolhapur route where the primary objective is to reduce crashes,” said deputy transport commissioner (road safety) Bharat Kalaskar, who will supervise the two drives till early January.
