Pune’s longest flyover, and the half hour it gave back

For years the honest objection to living on Sinhagad Road was the road itself. Six signals between Rajaram Bridge and Fun Time Theatre, and a queue at every one of them.

On 1 September 2025 that stopped being true. Pune’s longest double flyover opened over that stretch, 2.6 km of it, built by the Pune Municipal Corporation at ₹118.37 crore.

What it actually did

The flyover carries traffic over the junctions at Vitthalwadi, Hingne Khurd, Anandnagar, Bramha Hotel and Goel Ganga Chowk. Before it, crossing that stretch in the morning took the better part of half an hour. Reporting at the time put the run afterwards at five to six minutes.

It carries roughly 1.5 lakh vehicles a day. Double flyover means both directions are elevated rather than one, which is what stops the whole benefit from evaporating on the return trip at seven in the evening.

Underneath, the project added three-lane service roads, wider footpaths, parking bays and landscaped dividers. That part matters more than it sounds. A flyover with a neglected surface road below it moves cars and ruins a high street.

What it means for anyone buying on this road

Three things, in descending order of certainty.

• The corridor is materially better connected than it was in 2024. This is done, open and measurable. It is not a promise.
• Access to the Mumbai to Bengaluru highway improved. The corridor’s outer end feeds the highway, and getting to it no longer means the signal sequence.
• The metro alignment is now physically committed. Pillar foundations exist in the ground at two locations on this road. That is a stronger signal than a sanction letter.

What it does not mean

It does not mean the road is fixed. A flyover moves the bottleneck rather than deleting it, and the traffic now arrives at the ends of the flyover in a denser burst than before. Anyone who has driven Pune’s other flyovers knows the pattern.

It also only covers 2.6 km of a fifteen-kilometre road. If a project sits well beyond Fun Time Theatre, most of its residents’ daily driving is not on the flyover at all.

Which brings up the usual problem with Skydove specifically. No address has been published, so nobody can tell you whether the plot is inside the flyover’s reach. There is more on that in the piece on the missing distance table.

The test worth doing

Drive the corridor at the hour you would actually drive it, in both directions, on a weekday. Then do it again on a different day, because one bad morning proves nothing.

That hour tells you more than every connectivity table on every listing site put together. It is also the one piece of diligence a seller cannot influence.