Overview
- Highway Police fined 98 motorists over three days for stopping on the new valley bridges to take photos, and said a harsher crackdown, including possible criminal cases, could follow.
- MSRDC has placed the entire corridor under continuous CCTV with a control room and is sharing stop alerts with police for quick enforcement.
- Stopping anywhere on the route is banned, with speed caps of 100 km/h for cars and 80 km/h for buses that also apply inside tunnels.
- Posts by BJP figures Ravi Landge and Keshav Upadhye from the stretch drew public questions about whether VIPs face the same penalties as other drivers.
- Built to tame a crash‑prone descent, the 6 km realignment uses viaducts, a 650‑metre cable‑stayed bridge and long twin tunnels to shorten the route by about 6 km and save 20–30 minutes.