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Pune railway station,including parking area to be revamped by October end
On Friday,Pune division of the Central Railway will start the Nagpur-Kolhapur Express and a day later,the Pune-Nanded Express will kick off. The frequency of the Pune-Jaipur Express will also go up from Saturday. As the station gets ready,plans are also on to redesign and expand the parking and circulating areas of the railway station. The work is expected to be completed by October end,said Vishal Agarwal,divisional railway manager,Pune division. Train no – 17613/17614 Pune-Nanded Express (weekly) via Kurduwadi will leave from Pune every Saturday with effect from July 2 and from Nanded on Fridays,from July 1 onwards. Als o,the frequency of existing train no- 12939/12940 Pune-Jaipur Express has been increased with effect from July 2. It will now be bi-weekly instead of weekly.
Train12025/12026 Pune-Secunderabad Shatabdi Express (Daily) and train 12298 / 12297 Pune-Ahmedabad Duranto Express (Tri-weekly) are also likely to start in this financial year.
In consultation with the traffic branch of the Pune police,we are drawing up plans for the expansion and redesigning of the parking space. We have felt that certain pockets of the parkign space can be utilised better. Also the plan has been sanc0tioned for a new foot overbridge and details are being finalised,” said Agarwal in a press conference on Thursday. Alok Badgul,senior divisional commercial manager,said now the railway station has three parking slots two near the main gate and one near platform 6. The total parking capacity is 1,200 two-wheelers and 170 four-wheelers.
A multi-level parking is not feasible. Passengers,especially local ones, want to move on individual vehicles right till they board the train. Instead of using public transport they park vehicles every morning at the railway station,taking up a lot of space, said another railway official.
