Pune: a single integrated ticket system for various public transportation modes will be available at Pune after the Metro network is inaugurated in the second largest city of Maharashtra, BJP leader and former Minister of Main Devendra Fadnish said on Friday.
He spoke in the inauguration of the AC bus service with RS 10 ticket prices, an initiative from Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) in power BJP (PMC).
“The way the integrated ticket system is launched in Mumbai to include Metro, Monorail, Best and water channels, in the coming days, the ticket system to integrate Rail and Metro Bus services will be available at Pune.
Pune Metro trials are conducted yesterday, the service will be assigned soon , “he said.
He said people had doubts about the Pune Metro Rail project when it began under his government, but the current work moved at high speed, adding that Pune and Nagpur were the only city where metro work was taking place in the middle of the Coronavirus outbreak.
“When I am cm, I say the state government will give all the help and have asked PMC to buy CNG and electric buses to make free city pollution.
Today, Pune’s civilian transportation business has the highest number of electric buses.
In the fadnis,” said Fadnivis.
He said Pune City had a large number of two-wheeled vehicles, but projects such as Metro Rail would attract more people to public transportation.