pune the civic bodys standing committee has given its nod to build roads under a publicprivate partnership ppp model in the hadapsar and mundhwa areas residents of south hadapsar are now hoping that this move will finally help decongest the prolonged traffic issues at the everbusy handewadi road junctionthe said areas play home to several new housing societies which have come up over the past few years but despite the real estate boom planning by the pune municipal corporation pmc for civic amenities has not grown concurrently locals said the new roads will hopefully clear flow of traffic tackling one of the many issues they face one such resident anil kadam pointed out that the snarls and poor quality of roads from sasanenagar railway gate to simplicity society are a problem they deal with every day he added we have read about the ppp scheme that the civic body is implementing bringing in private players to build roads if pmc is providing builders with benefits to build roads hopefully they will come forward to accomplish something that will be helpful for them in the long runvaibhav mane chairperson foundation of housing societies of south hadapsar said the number of civic utilities like water pipelines drainage lines and roads have not been built at the same speed that permissions were given for new societies to come up one instance of the fallout is that we see heavy traffic congestion at shree ram chowk daily during peak hours agreeing joy chakraborty a resident of runwal seagull coop housing society said it is a highly accidentprone scenario even crossing the road has become a challenge we have waited a decade for this neglected stretch to be improved urgent action by pmc is sincerely requestedpmcs road department chief engineer vg kulkarni admitted that this is a longpending matter he told toi the traffic congestion from sasanenagar to mohammadwadi and undripisoli have been aggravated for long due to the increasing housing societies in these areas in addition to shortterm fixes of removing encroachments and resurfacing roads longterm solutions like building an underpass or overhead flyover at sasanenagar gate and at dp road which are already approved this will connect these areas directly to hadapsar bypassing the sasanenagar and chintamani areas