PMRDA to revise the metro project route to evade flyover clash.

Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) has revised the route of the third phase of the metro project to avoid a collision with the flyover of the University Circle.

The 23-km route will link the busy IT Park Hinjewadi to Shivajinagar. In the previous plans, the Metro would converge the flyover, which prompted either to incorporate it in a hybrid facility or to fully demolish it to make way for the line.

The Infra-Siemens consortium of Tata Realty that is implementing the project has decided, after a thorough study, to align the metro on the right-hand side of the University Circle, denying the requirement for the university to be demolished. This means that the metro will pass above the flyover.

Research to determine whether the flyover, built-in 2007, should be integrated re-aligned or strengthened was carried out earlier this year.

Officials of PMRDA have declared that demolition was not necessary a report for the same was also published. “To determine, however, whether the flyover will be demolished according to its proposal to renovate the junction is up to the Pune Municipal Corporation,” a government official said.

Previously, PMRDA officials announced that the University Flyover would have to be demolished in order to make way for the metro, and accommodate the latest, three-tier bridge catering to vehicular traffic, the High Capacity Mass Transit Route (HCMTR) section, joining SB Road to Aundh and the metro.

The proposal was brought forward by then- Cheif Minister Devendra Fadnavis. According to the original plan the University Circle and a busy intersection, Wakad Chowk, would have clashed flyovers.