Six-month road safety drive on Pune-Mumbai highways begins; overspeeding, lane cutting, wrong parking to invite action

The Maharashtra government Thursday (December 1) launched a multi-agency enforcement and awareness drive on two highways connecting Pune and Mumbai — the Expressway and the Old Highway. The six-month-long drive will comprise a survey of accident-prone ‘black spots’, and stringent action against overspeeding, lane cutting and wrong parking, among other road safety measures.

The state motor vehicle department has initiated the drive, which will be executed by joint teams of officials from regional transport offices of Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Panvel, traffic police, state highway patrol, Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, Public Works Department and NGOs.