PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) will construct dedicated Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) lanes on the Pune-Mumbai highway and Aundh-Ravet Road at an estimated cost of Rs 12 crore.

Shirish Poreddy of the civic engineering department said, "The 12-km stretch of the Pune-Mumbai highway from Bhakti Shakti chowk in Nigdi to Harris bridge in Dapodi lies in the municipal limits, as does the 14.5-km stretch of the Aundh-Ravet Road from Rajiv Gandhi bridge on Mula river to Ravet. The PCMC will develop these roads as BRTS routes. The civic body has widened the Pune-Mumbai highway to 61 m and it has 10 lanes."