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Mumbai Pune Expressway(Original)

The Mumbai Pune Expressway is India's first six-lane concrete, high-speed, access controlled tolled expressway.
It spans a distance of 93 km (58 miles) connecting Mumbai, the financial capital of India, and the neighboring industrial hub city of Pune. It has introduced for India new paradigms of speed and safety in automobile transportation.
The expressway has reduced the travel time between the cities of Mumbai and Pune to approximately two hours. For most practical purposes, it has replaced the older Mumbai-Pune strectch of the Mumbai-Chennai National Highway (NH 4), which had become extremely congested and accident-prone over time.The expressway starts at Kalamboli(near Panvel) and ends at Dehu Rd.(near Pune). It cleaves through the scenic Sahyadri mountain ranges via passes and tunnels. It has five interchanges Kon (Shedung), Chowk, Khalapur, Kusgaon and Talegaon.

The expressway has two carriageways with three concrete lanes each separated by a central divider and a tarmac or concrete shoulder on either side. Vehicles with fewer than four wheels and agricultural tractors are not permitted, although tractor-trailers (semi-trailer rigs) are permitted). The expressway handles about 43,000 PCUs daily,[3] and is designed to handle up to 1,000,000 PCUs.

The expressway cost INR16.3 billion (US$300 million) to construct. The first sections opened in 2000, and the entire route was completed, opened to traffic and made fully operational from April 2002.

It has five illuminated, ventilated tunnels totalling 5,724 metres. These tunnels were built by the Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Pune_Expressway
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Coordinates:   18°46'9"N   73°24'16"E
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