In my logic it should be Pashan-Baner link rd, since the road provides Pashan people connectivity to Baner. Our official addresses atleast are like this. And why anyone from Baner would like to access areas in Pashan at any point in their life? Anyways, there are few rumors and some interesting history to this road.
The original Pashan-Baner Link Road was supposed to start off Sus road near this place as seen in the picture below taken sometime in June 2007:
The major projects as on 22-April-2009 on this road are Kumar Shantiniketan, past Kumar Sahawas, Montvert Biaritzz, Magnolia, past Whispering Wind, Crystal Garden passing through the Rolling Hills area between the Rolling Hills appartment on the right and the row houses on the left, finally touching Baner road at a place somewhere ahead of food bazar.
For many months until Mar-2008 when throughfare from Rolling Hills was allowed due to work on Pashan-Baner Link road, I remember a board inside the Rolling Hills area mentioning 'Proposed Pashan-Baner Link Road'. This board was in the open space when one entered Rolling Hills gate and reached the other end of the concrete internal road.
The Current Pashan-Baner Link road starts at the Balaji Mandir Chowk and was supposed to go straight to Baner Gaon without a single turn as shown with dotted line. Orange County, Kubera Bahar, Athashri, OJAS, Basant-Bahar, Camelia, etc. being the major projects along this stretch. But rumors are that the road was diverted to the right towards Ramnadi as shown in the Google view below.
To me this diversion towards Ramnadi looks fine, since today we can access both Aundh and also reach Pune Univ square faster than it would have been if the road had gone straight to Baner Gaothan.
But the fate of the straight road did not end here. If it had travelled straight as shown in map below, a bridge would have come up over RamNadi at the spot circled red.
But this was not to happen. Afterall why would the Richie Rich in town allow a busy road pass right beside their peaceful and serene backyard. So the road was diverted to the left again towards its final destiny to Baner road only awaiting its most miserable part in the last leg besides Symantec.
As seen in this image above, the Pashan-Baner Link Road would have touched Baner road somewhere between hotels Bhairavee and GreenPark, the closest Pashan people could have got to Aundh and University.
On its last leg, rumors are that work on the Pashan-Baner Link road was again stuck up besides Symantec. The present stretch of the road was within their premises and part of their planned parking space which again is only a rumor. Besides, there were also many other privately owned plots that were at risk of vanishing for this stretch of the road to be realised. Finally rumors are, there was long debate with PMC over who should create the retaining wall between Ramnadi and the road besides Symantec that is seen today.
Above is part of the old Baner-Balewadi development plan, a 5 Mb jpg downloaded from the pmc website. It summarizes and confirms all roumers and stories.
Baner road is 30M wide. Later this was widened for the CYG 2008 games. The Pashan-Baner Link Road is 24M wide and clearly shown crossing the Ramnadi in the bottom-right corner of the image.
The road that goes past Whispering Wind, Magnolia, Crystal Garden crosses over the 24M wide PB link road and is clearly shown going through Rolling Hills. This part is shown 9M wide and has now been closed as mentioned earlier.
The road besides Symantec is shown 18M wide and it finally touches Baner road which inturn crosses the Ramnadi in Survey No. 270.
The 24M wide Pashan-Baner Link Road clearly demarcates Pashan from Baner and the Pashan area is left un-detailed since this is a Baner-Balewadi DP map.
More photos and other interesting stories on the Pashan-Baner Link road in my next post. So keep scrolling...
These THREE LINKING ROADS in BANER DP are present without any change in the latest DP official image, which you have downloaded. They are as it is shown in image since 1985 i.e. acquisition of Pashan in PMC and kept intact for all of the revisions of Baner DP. So they are already established roads on Govt. maps. Only physical acquisition of them is remaining.
ReplyDelete36M DP Pashan Baner Link Road - tender notice was published in 22nd July 2009 "Sakal" Newspaper.
ReplyDeleteThanks Anonymous. Thats a scoop.
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