Overview
- Collector Jitendra Dudi issued an immediate ban Tuesday that bars heavy and goods vehicles from entering the Pune City Police Commissionerate limits until further notice.
- Goods vehicles will be allowed into the city only between 11 pm and 6 am for loading and unloading under the new order.
- The administration published specific diversion corridors for major flows, including alternate routes for Solapur–Mumbai traffic, Mumbai–Solapur traffic, Mumbai–Nashik approaches and a Bengaluru‑highway route for Satara, Sangli and Kolhapur bound trucks.
- Officials have appealed to transporters to follow the notified routes and hours to avoid daytime breakdowns, a change that will force logistics firms to reschedule deliveries and increase traffic management at diversion points.
- The move responds to a recurring monsoon problem in Pune, a key transit hub on routes linking Mumbai with interior Maharashtra where stalled heavy vehicles have in past seasons produced long arterial road jams.