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Public Transport
Public transport modes in Pune include Pune Suburban Railway, bus and Rainbow BRTS services operated by PMPML and auto rickshaws. Online transport network companies like Uber and Ola cabs also provide rideshare and taxi services in the city. Construction of Pune Metro, an urban mass rapid transit system, is underway.

Rail
Local trains (EMUs) connect Pune to the industrial city of Pimpri-Chinchwad and the hill station of Lonavala, while daily express trains connect Pune to Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Jaipur, Nagpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Coimbatore, Chennai, Bangalore, Allahabad, Kanpur, Howrah, Jammu Tawi, Darbhanga, Goa, Gwalior, Varanasi, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi, Patna, and Jamshedpur. At Pune, there is a diesel locomotive shed and an electric trip shed.
The Pune Railway Station is administered by the Pune Railway Division of the Central Railways.[147] All the railway lines to Pune are broad gauge. The city also has a Motive power depot located at Ghorpadi. It is operated for Diesel Locomotives.

Bus Service
Public buses within the city and its suburbs are operated by the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML). The PMPML operates the Rainbow BRTS system, the first of its kind in India, in which dedicated bus lanes were supposed to allow buses to travel quickly through the city. In reality the project has turned out to be a failure, receiving little to no patronage from the local citizenry.[148] Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation runs buses from its main stations in Shivajinagar, Pune station, and Swargate to all major cities and towns in Maharashtra and neighbouring states. Private companies also run buses to major cities throughout India.

Metro
Pune Metro, a mass rapid transit system, is under construction and expected to be operational by 2021.[150][151] The detailed project report (DPR) was prepared for the initial two lines by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation which was approved by the State government in 2012 and by the Central government in December 2016.[152][153][154] These two lines, Line 1 from Pimpri-Chinchwad to Swargate and Line 2 from Ramwadi to Vanaz, with a combined length of 31.25 km are being implemented by MahaMetro, a 50:50 joint venture of the State and Central governments.[155] Line 1 will run underground between Swargate and Range Hills and elevated until Pimpri-Chinchwad. Line 2 will be completely elevated and will intersect Line 1 at the Civil Court interchange station in Shivajinagar.[156] Line 3 between Hinjewadi and Civil Court, Shivajinagar was approved by the State and Central governments in January and March 2018, respectively.[157][158] The 23.3-km line is being implemented by PMRDA on a public-private partnership basis.

Road Transport
Pune is well-connected to other cities by Indian highways and state highways. National Highway 4 (NH 4) connects it to Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolhapur. NH 65 to Hyderabad, Suryapet, Vijayawada and NH 50 to Nashik. State highways connect it to Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, and Alandi.
The Mumbai-Pune Expressway is India's first six-lane high-speed expressway, and it was built in 2002. This expressway has reduced travel time between Pune and Mumbai to almost two hours. A ring road is being planned for the convenience of heavy traffic.[160][161][162] On the express highway only four wheelers are allowed, thus only private cars, buses and taxis can travel on this route.
Pune is served by two intra-city highways: Old Pune-Mumbai Highway and Katraj-Dehu Road Bypass, a part of National Highway 4. The Nashik City-Pune Highway NH 50 will be part of the golden triangle (Nashik-Pune-Mumbai).

Personal transport
Once known as the 'cycle city of India', Pune has experienced a rapid growth in the number of motorized two wheelers replacing the cycle as a popular mode of transport.[163] In 2005, the city was reported to have one million two wheelers. The report also stated that the increase in vehicular and industrial activity had led to a 10-fold increase in particulate pollution in some areas of the city.[164] A report published in 2016 estimated the number of two wheeler users in Pune at 3.5 million.[165] In 2018, the number of vehicles in the city has exceeded its population with 3.62 million total vehicles, 2.70 million being two wheelers.[166][167] In the fiscal year 2017-18 alone, 300,000 new vehicles were registered in the city, two-thirds of them two wheelers.
A revival of cycling in Pune with 130 km of cycle tracks was attempted as a part of the BRT system under the JNNURM in 2004. However, a 2011 report revealed that only 88 km of tracks were actually built and most were unusable at the time of the report.[169][170] Under the Smart Cities Mission, app based cycle sharing schemes are being launched in the city since late 2017.[171][172][173] The PMC has devised the 'Pune Cycle Plan' with 470 km of cycle tracks planned.[174][175][176] Cycles are also seen as a possible mode to improve last mile connectivity for the metro system.

Air
Pune International Airport is an international Airport at Lohegaon, operated by the Airports Authority of India. It shares its runways with the neighbouring Indian Air Force base.[178] In addition to domestic flights to all major Indian cities, this airport serves international direct flights to Dubai (operated by Air India Express)[179] and to Frankfurt (operated by Lufthansa).
Considering the limited capacity of the current airport, a new international airport has been proposed in Pune. Initially, a location in the Chakan-Rajgurunagar area north of the city was chosen for the airport.[181][182] However, due to non availability of land the project got delayed for over a decade.[183] In September 2016, the location was changed to Purandar, c. 20 km south of the city.[184][185] Since Purandar is the birth place of Sambhaji, the second Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire, the airport will be named Chhatrapati Sambhaji Raje International Airport.
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