Overview
- Milind Narvekar wrote to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis urging an urgent review of emergency readiness for the sea bridge.
- He called for a detailed plan that includes a helipad and rapid-response facilities to handle accidents or natural disasters.
- Narvekar said he was stuck in the Mumbai–Pune Expressway snarl while traveling to meet the family of the late Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and described seeing the overturned tanker.
- The recent incident involved a tanker carrying highly flammable propylene, which left traffic stalled for roughly 32–33 hours.
- Citing heavy usage, reports note the bridge links Sewri and Chirle over 21.8 km and carried more than 8.3 million vehicles in the past year, while a Pune industrialist who took a helicopter during the jam has also advocated helipads for emergency evacuation.