MUMBAI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray on Thursday took aim at chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, questioning why raising concerns over the quality of infrastructure projects such as the Missing Link is being portrayed as an insult to Maharashtra.Speaking at an event organised by the MNS Rail Sena, the party’s railway union, Thackeray also…
Emergency personnel work to clear debris after a major landslide hit a Missing Link tunnel along the Pune-Mumbai expressway on Monday (July 6) Pune: A major landslide shut down the Missing Link (now ‘Connecting Link’ ) between Pune and Mumbai on Monday, with traffic to Mumbai returning to normal only by 10pm, nearly 18 hours…
Heavy rains triggered a landslide near Tunnel 2 on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway Missing Link MUMBAI/PUNE: The newly opened Mumbai–Pune Expressway ‘Missing Link’ project ran into serious trouble on Monday as heavy rains triggered a landslide near Tunnel 2, forcing a complete shutdown of the stretch and disrupting traffic between the two cities for over 18…
5 min readUpdated: Jul 6, 2026 01:40 PM IST Barely nine weeks after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the Rs 6,695-crore Mumbai-Pune Expressway Missing Link as a permanent solution to the expressway’s worst traffic bottleneck, a monsoon-triggered landslide has partially shut the corridor, forcing traffic back onto the old Mumbai-Pune Highway it was built to…
Inaugurated on May 1, the 13.3km corridor has been opened exclusively to passenger vehicles and buses Pune: The Mumbai-Pune Expressway’s ‘Missing Link’ corridor is unlikely to be opened to heavy vehicles even after the planned six-month review. The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) has indicated that the current traffic arrangement was functioning effectively and…
Officials say barriers have been set up on the 650-metre-long cable-stayed bridge spanning Tiger Valley Pune: The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) has started installing specialised wind barriers on the cable-stayed bridge of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway’s Missing Link (now new link) to safeguard motorists from strong crosswinds, especially during the monsoon and other extreme…
Construction work of Pune outer ring road is progressing across Khadakwasla backwaters near Sangrun and Davaje villages Pune: The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) last month issued notices to two of the five contractors appointed for the Rs 55,000-crore Pune ring road project after their progress remained below 10%, raising concerns over delays in…
