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Pune - Transport system: Encyclopedia II - Pune - Transport system

Pune has excellent road, rail and air connectivity to almost all important cities in India. It is extremely well connected to most of the important cities in India like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkota and Chennai. Maharashtra state transport buses are most commonly used by people to travel to rural parts of India. They are the cheapest means of transport. State owned and private air-conditioned bus services run daily buses to most important cities to and from P ...

Pune: Encyclopedia II - Pune - Transport system

Pune - Transport system

Maharashtra state transport buses are most commonly used by people to travel to rural parts of India. They are the cheapest means of transport. State owned and private air-conditioned bus services run daily buses to most important cities to and from Pune. The bus frequency is extremely good.

Pune is very well connected by rail to all the major cities in India. The city has two main railway stations, Pune Junction and Shivajinagar Station; most trains halt at Pune Junction. The pune suburban trains also run from Pune Junction to industrial towns of Khadki, Pimpri, Chinchwad etc.

Pune now has an international-deemed airport, with flights to Singapore and Dubai. New flights to New York, London, Paris and Shanghai (via Mumbai) have also been announced. Domestic flights are available to most metropolitan cities.

Locally, the Pune Municipal Transport (PMT) is Pune's public transport service, Pune Municipal undertaking. PMT is an important mode of transport. In addition to this however, is the Auto Rickshaw, which is used in great numbers all across Pune. It is used so frequently because of its quick ride. However, this option works out to be rather expensive nowadays because distances in Pune have become large and the fares are constantly going up.

The merger of the PMT and the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Transport (PCMT) is also on the cards which would give birth to the much larger PMTU or Pune Metropolitan Transport Undertaking. This is expected to improve the public transportation problem that currently plagues the city. Buses are very old and their drivers have a habit of being careless about the safety of smaller vehicles or pedestrians; thus earning it the title of "Pune Murder Transport".

More than PMT, traffic is generally a problem, in the form of congestion, a wide variety of vehicles, bad roads and a general disregard of traffic rules. Road accidents, quite often fatal, are not uncommon in Pune because of all these factors combined.