In Pune I do a cross country of driving 22kms one way to work (from one end to the other literally). Here's the regular traffic jams I encounter:
1) Pune Central junction - Shivaji Nagar. The mall has created a traffic chaos with a bus stop right outside it to complicate matters.
2) Shivaji Nagar Rly station junction at Shimla Office. The problem creators are PMC / PCMC buses but its not their fault. Its a design fault. On the extreme left of the road about 75 feet before the traffic light are three bus stops in a row and most of the buses that halt here have to cross two lanes within 75 feet and take a right at Shimla office junction to reach Modern Cafe chowk.
3) Sancheti Hospital flyover. to reach COEP. Wonder when they'll make this an 8 lane bridge considering the fact that it falls at one of the ends of the Mumbai Pune highway and you have everything from truck traffic to pvt. office buses coming from PCMC industrial area to State transport buses coming in from Bombay using this flyover.
4) Optionally if I don't turn left at Sancheti and go straight I have to battle for life as I was about to get killed thrice on this junction on my bike. The problem here is that you reach an undivided four lane road at a signal where you can't take a right so smart Punekars decide to go straight at the junction and immediately take a U-turn from whichever lane they are in. Imagine starting off a signal and seeing an auto rickshaw or a call center cab dead perpendicular on the road when you are accelerating in gears and stopping is nowhere remotely on your mind.
5) As soon as you cross the courts continuing on the road mentioned in #4 you'll reach a bridge which is a single lane bridge again undivided and you have traffic all over the bridge right from the start until you reach the traffic light at Juna bazaar chowk. To add to the traffic most users jump lanes and block on coming traffic to ensure smooth flow of traffic
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6) Next would be the signal opposite hotel coconut groove, Thankfully the municipality resurfaced these roads very recently to ensure that the divider no longer serves any purpose other than holding street lights. Its like a nice paddock created for trucks / ricks / etc to jump over the divider and go to the other side of the road. Like a free U-turn everywhere.
7) Sassoon hospital junction. They are trying to make a subway here for the last 3-4 years if I am not mistaken and a major part of the road is yet under construction. I think some construction company could practically hand craft a subway and air lift it and place it in the middle of this junction in the said time and I am sure it would cost less as well
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8) Sadhu Waswani junction. An island junction where you can't do much. Not as bad though. It clears quite fast.
9) Fatima Nagar junction on Hadapsar road. Bottle neck traffic and as soon as you cross this you have a wonderful highway (3 lanes each mind you) full of trucks that overtake each other at 5 - 10 kmph. The municipality decided to have a dedicated lane for buses so we are left with two crunched lanes used by everything other than PMC / PCMC buses all the way upto Magarpatta junction.
Phew I can't type anymore.