On Monday, December 7, vehicular traffic movement was hit at Mahim causeway and SV Road with the backlog stretching up to the Western Express Highway as a result of a water pipeline repair work.
As per reports, several commuters informed that they were not made aware of the diversions and were further caught in congestion. Moreover, vehicles were stuck for 15 minutes or more on the Mahim causeway.
Earlier on November 30, a massive milk tanker overturned along the Mumbai-Pune expressway after it rammed into a truck ahead of it near Adoshi tunnel at Khopoli.
This caused both the vehicles to topple sideways as it blocked the lanes. This ended up disrupting the traffic movement towards Mumbai causing inconveniences amongst the commuters. According to sources, IRB Yatranna along with the Highway Traffic Police had arrived at the spot immediately to remove the milk tanker from the route in order to work on the traffic.
The Mumbai to Pune route is heavily congested with many vehicles traversing between the two cities every day. Accidents are more frequent on this route due to the high speed of vehicles. Therefore, in order to curb the increase in the number of accidents, the traffic police had earlier issued instructions to reduce the speed while driving. However, drivers still drive at breakneck speeds which leads to such unfortunate incidents.
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