pune the traffic police have banned movement of heavy vehicles on lanes around shastrinagar chowk in yerawada after local residents and the former corporator raised safety concernstraffic police said there are alternative roads available for heavy vehicles to travel from nagar road towards alandi road and mumbaipune road the changes are being implemented for the next 15 days on a trial basisformer corporator siddharth dhende said heavy vehicles had been allowed into lanes from shastrinagar to sahyadri hospital lane to badami chowk only for the duration that the work of a flyover was going on it is six months that it was completed the demand was raised to the traffic police that heavy vehicles be rerouted through the main road instead of the lanes since the area has many schools the movement of heavy vehicles has been leading to traffic snarls and increased chances of mishaps heavy vehicles should travel from nagar road shastrinagar chowk towards ambedkar chowk and then towards alandi roaddhende said the traffic police have responded to the demand we are urging citizens to register their views to the traffic police to restrict movement of heavy vehicles in the lanesashish rahalkar a regular commuter said traffic has gone up significantly in the area over the last few years there is need to put restrictions on movement of heavy vehiclesan official from the traffic police department said manpower has been deployed at key chowks in the nagar road area to control traffic flow during peak hours