Nineteen-year-old casual worker Rehman Patel was killed on Saturday when he was hit by a PCMT bus. The death led to strong protests from the residents as a repeated demand for regularising traffic at the busy traffic junction was being made for several years. One of the main demands was to shift the PMT and PCMT bus stands and provide other alternatives for buses proceeding in various directions.

Mayor Madhukar Pawle, Municipal Commissioner B I Nagrale, PCMT general manager Rajendra Sanerpatil, along with local corporator Raju Golande, visited the site today and immediately decided to shift the PCMT bus stop from the existing place. PCMT buses moving towards Aundh via Thergaon will now stop near the Kamat hospital. A decision to shift the PMT bus stop is to be taken within the next two days.

A total of seven roads meet at the Chapekar chowk and apart from the traffic hazard caused by the PMT and PCMT bus stops, the parking of tempos and encroachments by handcart owners further aggravated the problem. The vegetable market is also located at Chinchwadgaon, besides a large number of devotees arrive here to visit the Moraya Gosavi samadhi temple. The encroachments by handcart owners and other roadside hawkers was removed today.

The PCMC has plans to rehabilitate the slum dwellers at Vetalnagar near Chapekarchowk by providing them tenements at the same site. The site is reserved for a bus terminus.