[ranjitp1]

Pune-Solapur,definitely not recommended at night due to 4 laning that is in progress.The pune-hyd drive would take you around 12hours

[srinivasdurai]

@ranjitp1, thanks for the info. Will try and start early.

[MDe]

Did anyone do a recent road trip to Mumbai/Pune. Any improvements in the road conditions. I have been deferring my drive to Pune hearing about the bad road conditions.

[ranjitp1]

Originally Posted by MDe

Did anyone do a recent road trip to Mumbai/Pune. Any improvements in the road conditions. I have been deferring my drive to Pune hearing about the bad road conditions.

Not much has changed,it is still a 12 hour drive.Road widening still in progress,but roads till Solapur have been done up now and the Karnataka sections are good as well now.After Solapur,it is still the same old story.Take the Shatabdi for now,its better(4pm departue from Hyd and arrival at Pune at 1130pm)

[MDe]

@ranjitp1 : Thanks for the quick response. I will wait for the roads to be better. The aim is to get a good drive, pune is just a place that I can go to for a reason :-)

[ranjitp1]

Originally Posted by MDe

@ranjitp1 : Thanks for the quick response. I will wait for the roads to be better. The aim is to get a good drive, pune is just a place that I can go to for a reason :-)

It would be a long wait

It should take a year for the roads to be better between Solapur & Pune,plus there is a flyover being constructed as well on the Solapur town bypass

[hyd_traveller]

A friend of mine is planning to drive from Pune to Hyderabad and will be able to start only around 9am from Pune. He lives on Bangalore Mumbai NH4 Bye Pass near Baner.

Keeping in view the road widening issues, should he stick to NH9 route?

What is the expected driving time without breaks?

Thanks!

[ranjitp1]

Originally Posted by hyd_traveller

A friend of mine is planning to drive from Pune to Hyderabad and will be able to start only around 9am from Pune. He lives on Bangalore Mumbai NH4 Bye Pass near Baner.

Keeping in view the road widening issues, should he stick to NH9 route?

What is the expected driving time without breaks?

Thanks!

Ask him to come via Baramati.Take the NH4 till Kapurhole,take a left at Kapurhole towards the Venkateshwara Tirupati Temple,continue on the road crossing Narayanpur,Saswad then onto Jejuri and Moregaon and then Baramati to reach Indapur on NH9.

From thereon till Hyderabad via NH9.

9am means he should be able to reach Miyapur crossroads by 9pm.He can reach Solapur for a late lunch.Aviraj Dhaba on the right on the nh9 is a good place to stop.

Indapur-Solapur road is ok,but really heavy truck traffic(trucks going from South to the North take this road to connect to NH3).

Solapur to Umerga roads are good to ok.

Umerga to Zaheerabad again just about ok road,rough at certain places.

Zaheerabad to Hyderabad excellent road.4 laning begins from Sangareddy.

[AvonA7]

Hi Friends,

Been through the updates in this thread, hoping against hope, is it advisable to do a pun-hyd-pun by car in 2-3 weeks from now ?

Posting this query as would love to drive down and back, but if the drive is not enjoyable, no point going by car and in this case shall opt for other available options. Please advise.

Thanks in advance.

[ASHISHPALLOD]

Originally Posted by AvonA7

shall opt for other available options. Please advise.

Try
train no 01463 pune- secunderabad dep 6am arrival 2:30 pm same day,
train no 01464 secunderabad-pune dep 3:20pm arrival 11:55 pm same day.

or

evergreen option of flight is available.

[ranjitp1]

Originally Posted by AvonA7

Hi Friends,

Been through the updates in this thread, hoping against hope, is it advisable to do a pun-hyd-pun by car in 2-3 weeks from now ?

Posting this query as would love to drive down and back, but if the drive is not enjoyable, no point going by car and in this case shall opt for other available options. Please advise.

Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by ASHISHPALLOD

Try
train no 01463 pune- secunderabad dep 6am arrival 2:30 pm same day,
train no 01464 secunderabad-pune dep 3:20pm arrival 11:55 pm same day.

or

evergreen option of flight is available.

Take the train as suggested by Ashish.For information sakes,the trains mentioned are Shatabdis so makes it all the more comfortable.By road you would never make it in 8hours!

[AvonA7]

Originally Posted by ASHISHPALLOD

Try
train no 01463 pune- secunderabad dep 6am arrival 2:30 pm same day,
train no 01464 secunderabad-pune dep 3:20pm arrival 11:55 pm same day.

or

evergreen option of flight is available.

Originally Posted by ranjitp1

Take the train as suggested by Ashish.For information sakes,the trains mentioned are Shatabdis so makes it all the more comfortable.By road you would never make it in 8hours!

Thank you Ashish, Ranjit for the detailed alternate options, especially for providing the train no. Simple search wasn't showing the Shatabdi express in IRCTC, realized booking for this train is not available 3 months in advance. Anyways, tickets booked and it was available.

[anilisanil]

Now that gets me thinking, to drive to Vizag from Pune, is there any alternate route?

I see that a route that takes us to Osmanabad, Kamareddy and then connect backs to Hyderabad or Rajamundry (bypassing Vijaywada via Siddipet, Khammam etc) any comments on this route?

[ASHISHPALLOD]

Originally Posted by anilisanil

I see that a route that takes us to Osmanabad, Kamareddy and then connect backs to Hyderabad or Rajamundry (bypassing Vijaywada via Siddipet, Khammam etc) any comments on this route?

Which route via osmanabad?

There are two routes alternate to hyd route.

1] pune-nh9-tembhurni-kurduwadi-barshi-latur-shirur tajband-mukhed-biloli-nizamabad-nh16-armur-jagtiyal-jagadalpur-vizag.

2] pune----same as above--------jagtiyal-warangal-khammam-vizag.

Shirur tajband to nizamabad is bad road.

both route passes through naxal affected area, not worth to try.

[amit_mechengg]

i would never suggest you road travel in car on this solapur highway. its very unsafe and very uncertain. trucks and buses are the villains here driving thru this is maut ka kuwa