India, Dec. 27 -- The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is currently focusing on removing unscientific speed breakers located on main streets in the city. Once this phase is completed, the removal process will extend to speed breakers on internal roads.

So far, 250 such speed breakers have been removed, and the remaining ones will be addressed soon.

Pune has approximately 1,400 kilometres of roads within the city limits, excluding newly added villages. Speed breakers were previously erected based on requests from local citizens or representatives, often in accident-prone areas or to control vehicle speeds. However, these speed bumps did not adhere to the guidelines of the Indian Road Congress (IRC), resulting in inconsistencies in their ...