Ganeshkhind Road Trees
There are over 394 at stake.
They’ve already chopped down over a hundred.
These are my objections :
To the proposal to cut and/or transplant 87 trees on Ganeshkhind Road in addition to the 93 trees that have already been cut/transplanted earlier.
● Build this road as per IRC guidelines. Build world class, zero defect roads which don’t allow for routine maintenance and work to impact traffic. There should be clear utility zones on the roads with water supply, sewage, storm water drainage, fire hydrants, Internet and electricity cabling planned for the next 3 decades, NO digging roads again and again,
The road design needs to incorporate all of these variables. One time...
● Pedestrian and Cycle traffic have to be considered. The current 36 meter Ganeshkhind road width can take into account 3 lanes on each side, 20 metres. A metro corridor and median 3 metres. Plus 6.5 metre footpaths and cycle tracks with the multi utility zone within them. This will do sufficient justice to the pedestrian and cycle traffic.
Mini buses E rickshaws, can provide as feeders to the metro stations and also ferry people locally.
● Trees must be saved, so there needs to be a plan on where and what trees will be transplanted with GPS data. How many trees will be in new plantations and the real time tracking of that, their growth and success rate needs to be made publicly available. On a continuous basis.
● Introduce 8000 mini buses into Pune’s public transportation system so that the personal vehicle load can go off the roads and into these electric WiFi enabled buses which have charging points and allowance to hop on and hop off.
Like the above, I would request all concerned Punekars - to fill in their objections in the form below and help save these trees
Act now by objecting to further tree cutting and advocating for people-centric infrastructure. Submit objections by November 20th!
A form has been created to facilitate and help those who wish to submit their objection to the cutting/transplanting of 87 full grown trees on Ganeshkhind road. Objection letters to be submitted to the Asst Municipal Commissioner/Tree Officer. Objections received via this form will be printed and submitted to the Tree Officer. A copy will also be automatically emailed to the Tree Officer at
[email protected]
(Google form - https://t.co/TUe3eI7YR5 OR Letter template - https://t.co/OCn7EfTWMi).
Objections must be submitted by 20 Nov 2023. This form will remain open until 19 Nov 2023.
You can read more about this here - https://t.co/oOOg1M3OWw
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Dear Shri @nitin_gadkari ji.
I have tremendous regard for your acumen and capabilities.
Allow me on behalf of all thinking Punekars to politely decline your Diwali gift of 35000 crores.
What Pune needs is pothole free, zero defect roads within the municipal corporation limits.
Pune needs all its roads built to world class standards along with a fleet of 8000 mini buses, electric, WiFi enabled alongwith charging points which can decongest the road routes & provide as feeders to the metro route.
Pune needs cycle tracks, footpaths & pedestrian only zones.
Pune needs zero sewage, zero garbage & zero air pollution goals along with roadmaps to get there.
Pune does not need your exercises in failure like the chandni chowk or these triple plans.
A vibrant city like pune is not a highway project and neither is it a back of the beyond desert circumstance.
Pune is a beautiful, resource rich, gifted, water plentiful place.
We are tired of your corrupt decadent triple engine sarkar which delivers precious little anyways.
When we aren’t contending with the bottlenecks your experiments in highway building have gifted us. We are worried about accidents that Navle bridge alignments have brought upon us. The lost lives on katraj kondhwa road and for that matter the holes that have magically appeared on the chandni chowk flyover. The rampant chopping of trees and the force fitting of your road models which only have served in raising average temperatures and visited countless natural disasters upon state after state.
Are you insensitive to all of the above ?
If not, Dear Sir, you’re kindly advised to take wise counsel. Appoint your team of engineers along with the help of our homegrown faculty at COEP to research what the best possible methods to interconnect roads and make them uniform carriage-width are.
Those 35000 crore would be better spent at studying Pune’s road network substantively. We could use google data, math and algorithms to devise better traffic flows. That money can be better put to work acquiring the necessary lands and buildings to make Pune roads interconnected and free of all bottlenecks.
Our Roads can be surrounded by trees, lawns, landscaping & made world class.
The guidelines for making this happen already exist with the Indian road congress or IRC. Experts from there consult you regularly.
Can you help or is this only about pouring more concrete and contracting.
Pune requests you to leave us a legacy of a beautiful city. Not a concrete desert.
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Image : Sinhagad Road 1990’s
Photos @ 11 am and 5 45pm on Law College rd, which according to PMC is so congested and polluted that a 6 lane bypass rd needs to be built across @VetalTekdi 🙄
GPS screenshot at 6 38pm shows 12 min, which is 7 min more than the 5 min it takes @ say 2 am.
Dear PM Modi
During your visit to Pune, some Punekars might offer you to drive on our roads here in a stealth mode to show you how bad the road conditions are. Knowing you, you might even want to see it for yourself, the big, small, wide, narrow khadde, road surface that feels like the papudres of khari biscuit are coming off..while nothing about driving on the roads is fun, it’s ok for us ordinary citizens to endure the suffering, take forever to reach (if we are lucky) our destinations late. After all we have all the time in the world to spare, so what if a drive from Law college road to Baner a distance of barely 8km takes 90 mins on a weekday evening, we are not running a country like you, we are not going in charge of building public image of India abroad, we are nobodys .. a cog in the the machinery of our society. Every few years we vote, take a selfie showing out finger a picture worth thousand words, a picture of a robust democracy. We give ourselves shabaski for doing our job as citizens. You on the other hand have a huge election to win next year, to run a campaign against the other (corrupt) parties.
Point is that if you do take up to driving on our roads in an incognito mode then there is a risk of; 1. Late, really late, you might even miss the elections next year & number 2, you might get disillusioned at the state of our infra, & even question the competence of the administration.
That simply cannot happen. You can’t leave Pune with a bad experience, we won’t let that happen. Don’t take the roads, take Chitale Bandhu Amba barfi or Kaju Katli instead.
-S
On @PMOIndia orders, 17 stray dogs (mostly old, sterilized and harmless) from Bhoslenagar & police ground were picked up and impounded ahead of PM Modi's visit to #Pune.
What kind of cruel senseless order is this?
Why must animals be put thru this torture every VVIP visit?
As compared to Mumbai, where there is the sea where the polluted air gets dispersed, Pune is surrounded by hills. Hills and greenery on them should be retained to act as the city's lungs. We need to reduce pollution, which causes breathing problems.
#chaloPMC#PMCgherao