pune the civic body plans to complete all ongoing and pending street design work and realignment of footpaths between khanduji baba and agriculture college junctions along fergusson college road by the end of march the completion of the work will be a big relief for pedestrians facing hardships for a long time as the project has lagged since the past few months because of the covidinduced lockdown the barricades and machinery kept on the road and footpaths were also affecting the traffic pune municipal corporation pmc officials said the work was expedited in all the remaining patches and would get over in two months the project includes redesigning of footpaths parking lots for two and fourwheelers approach roads to the thoroughfare and provision of ducts for utility services bus stops for pmpml beautification and installation of smart elements dinkar gojare an officer attached to the pmcs road development department said work at most crucial junctions was over the latest patch where the work got over was ahead of goodluck chowk towards the garware subway we will complete the work till the khanduji baba chowk the pending work at a patch towards the agriculture college chowk has also been completed he addedgojare said all the work was carried out in accordance with the urban street design guidelines and alterations would be made as per requirementssai sakhare who uses the road frequently said we also want the administration to ensure proper maintenance and avoid misuse of whatever smart facilities are being installed along the road the administration should ensure action against people flouting the parking rules along the road goodluck chowk to get cultural corner pune the civic body will set up a triangleshaped corner at goodluck chowk for people to display street arta senior pune municipal corporation pmc official said the work on the cultural corner has been started and would get over within a month the official said there was no plan to use the facility for organizing big events or use it commercially we are developing the space for people willing to showcase street art or hang out for sometime the space is being designed in such a way that it will not obstruct traffic and pedestrians said dinkar gojare an officer attached to the pmcs road development department gojare said the administration had consulted citybased artists before finalizing its structure opinions were also sought from the traffic police to ensure that the facility did not affect vehicular flow plans are afoot to install a replica of a camera at the chowk