pune the commute between hadapsar and kharadi has become an absolute nightmare for motorists many said wrongside driving and numerous traffic bottlenecks along the stretch have caused travel time to increase exponentially motorists toi spoke to said the sevenkilometre stretch today takes them least two hours to cover pratik patni who travels to his workplace in kharadi daily via this route said there are multiple problems along this road as a result the traffic congestion here is frequent and severe heavy vehicles now ply along this narrow road eating up a huge part of the carriageway the vehicles also breakdown a lot the potholes and the waterlogging compound the problem patni added that both ends of the mundhwakharadi bridge are extremely narrow and simply unable to accommodate the traffic flow to and from the structureone side of the bridge opens near the mundhwa junction where there is almost always a long line of vehicles waiting for signal to turn green in regular conditions it takes about 45 minutes to cover this stretch but commute times can increase to two hours when congestion is heavy i have seen personnel from the pune traffic department stationed here but they have not been able to resolve this problem he said local resident priyanka kadam said bottlenecks at the mundhwa junction and about 200 metres before the amanora township cause a lot of inconvenience sometimes you end up waiting at one spot for well over 15 minutes i have noticed that small shops have come up along the road they look like illegal encroachments in my opinion these illegal businesses are also responsible for much of the congestion in this area also we must consider the numerous instances of wrongside driving here its rampant kadam said she said the monsoon too has taken a toll on the road there are now many potholes along the stretch between amanora mall and mundhwa junction some infrastructural intervention has become necessary to ease traffic conditions in the areapankaj deshmukh the deputy commissioner of police traffic told toi that there has been a massive increase in the number of vehicles along this stretch personnel from the traffic police department have been stationed along this stretch however the volume of traffic is very heavy the civic infrastructure along this road has been unable to keep up with growing demand he explaineddeshmukh added that the kharadihadapsar road once served as a bypass for heavy vehicles moving from ahmednagar road to solapur road the areas were urbanized recently which is why there has been an increase in the number of vehicles he saidmeanwhile a representative from the pmc said he was aware of the problems caused by traffic congestion in the area however the official said there are not many encroachments along the roads i know the roads at mundhwa junction are narrow and that there are severe traffic bottlenecks there said suresh jagtap the deputy municipal commissioner of pmc for zone 4 which includes the hadaparsarmundhwa ward office we could