driving on mumbai pune expressway in the rain is very very beautiful experience - beautiful scenery with mountains on both the side can be seen up to pune and beyond- mumbai to lonavala by road on expressway can be reached in 2 to 2 & half hours depending on the speed of our car....... for more videos on india tours watch playlist....... http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4275462FDA84F85D description from wikipedia....... Mumbai Pune Expressway The Mumbai-Pune Expressway is India's first six-lane, concrete, high-speed, tolled, access-controlled, 93 km (58 mi) long expressway. It connects Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, to the neighbouring educational and information technology-oriented city of Pune. With its smoothly paved concrete construction, this highway is unlike most other roads in India. This expressway offers a scenic drive between Mumbai and Pune and reduced the travel time between these two commercially important cities from 4--5 hours on the old NH4 to 2--3 hours. Highway features 6-lane concrete highway with 7m-wide divider. An extra lane provided on each side as a hard shoulder. Separate tunnels for traffic in each direction. Complete fencing to avoid humans and animals crossing the expressway. No two-wheelers, three-wheelers or tractor vehicles allowed. Provision of petrol pumps, motels, workshops, toilets, emergency phones, first aid, breakdown vans, etc. Proposed planting of 80,000 trees along the Expressway The expressway has reduced the travel time between the cities of Mumbai and Pune to approximately two hours. For most practical purposes, it has replaced the older Mumbai-Pune stretch of the Mumbai-Chennai National Highway (NH 4), which had become extremely congested. The expressway starts at Kalamboli (near Panvel) and ends at Dehu Rd. (near Pune). It cleaves through the scenic Sahyadri mountain ranges via beautiful passes and tunnels..... video taken between panvel and lonavala on mumbai pune expressway maharashtra state, india

• published: 25 Jan 2013
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