Holidays, Ganesh festival take toll on e-way traffic

Holidays for three consecutive days and Ganesh Chaturthi impacted traffic on the Mumbai-Pune expressway. Traffic almost came to halt on road from Mumbai to Pune due to flow of increased number of vehicles on the road. However, the road from Pune to Mumbai remained unaffected.

“Information technology employees are travelling toward Pune, Lonavala, and other tourists places due to holiday on three consecutive days that are Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Devotees from Mumbai are heading back home to Pune and Konkan to celebrate Ganesha Chaturthi that is on Monday. That has doubled the flow of vehicles on expressway,” said Gaurav Shinde, police sub inspector, Vadagoan, highway traffic police on Saturday.