The Mumbai-Pune Expressway is closed for two hours today | Photo Credit: BCCL

Pune: The Mumbai-Pune expressway, a key arterial road for both commercial and non-commercial vehicles, will be shut for two hours on Friday because of the setting up of a directional and information head (overhead gantry) on the route towards Pune.

The traffic going towards Pune will be closed from 12 noon to 2 pm. This traffic will be diverted from another route. Work is underway to set up a Directional indicator and overhead gantry on the Expressway.

From your destination's distance to the distance of the next toll, to a nearby food mall - no information was visible on some command boards. Thus, work is being undertaken to change the command boards. A few days ago too traffic from Mumbai to Pune was closed for 2 hours.

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For the ongoing work, traffic has been diverted from Shandong Phata to National Highway No. 4 of old Mumbai-Pune Highway between 12 pm to 2 pm. Drivers should take the road from Shandong Phata, Ajivli Chowk, Dand Phata Chowk, Karjat Phata and Khalapur Phata from the Khalapur toll plaza road for reaching Pune. During this period, heavy vehicles will be stopped at the Chikhale bridge at the expressway.

On January 10 too, the Mumbai-Pune Expressway was closed for two hours for the installation of overhead gantry between Rasayni and Madap.

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