India, May 31 -- The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Traffic Branch have introduced a major traffic change in the first week of May on the Pune-Ahmednagar Highway, shutting down signals at key junctions -Shastrinagar Chowk, Wadgaonsheri Chowk, Vimannagar Chowk, and Kharadi bypass to ease congestion. Under the new plan, right turns have been banned, and U-turns have been introduced as an alternative.

However, commuters and citizen activists allege the changes are causing more problems than they solve.

A spot visit revealed that the commuters en route to Kalyaninagar from Shashtrinagar Chowk cannot take the right turn due to the new arrangement and then have to come again after taking a U U-turn on the left side of Pune side. However...