Roads of Pune
- Bhandarkar Road: One of the upmarket residential areas in Pune, Bhandarkar Road connects Law College Rd to Fergusson College Road. Though you will mostly find residential complexes in this area, a few commercial outlets are also present. Most notable being the Food World outlet. There are also innumerable cybercafes. This road extends for a kilometer with Good Luck cafe being a popular place for localites to socialize in the evenings, being located at the eastern end of this road. Rangoli is a popular restaurant for vegetarian food and is located at the junction of this road and Law College road. There is also a school for the hearing impaired.
- Fergusson College Rd(FC Rd): The favourite hangout of the many students of the city, this place has a life. Traffic is thick sometimes and very streamlined and never chaotic. Fergusson College has made this road famous and shoppers can be seen streaming into this road throughout the day. The young at heart will find this place irrestible. Savera,Vaishali and Rupali are three very popular restaurants. FC Rd is a commercial street. Lucky Restaurant proved to be true to its name, at least for Dev Anand when he was a struggling artist in this city! To this day, a photo od Dvv greets you the moment you enter Lucky. Popular Book House, International Book House, Super Shoppe and Sagar Arcade are prime commercial establishments. In addition, FC Road is also home to the British Council Library.
- Laxmi Rd: One of the longest commercial streets in Pune, it snakes through the older and seedier parts of the city. Famous for its neon lights, night life is right life! It's also famous for publishing houses like Nirali and Manali Prakashan, but also notorious for Budhwar Peth, the red light area of the city.
- Jangli Maharaj Road: Famous for its many restaurants, this road is one of the busiest places in Pune. Bifurcating from FC Rd, Jangli Maharaj Rd is yet another commercial place of interest to all and sundry.
- Mahatma Gandhi Road: The most posh road in the whole of Pune, the rich and famous throng it. Saturday evenings are like a mini riot and you could find the most beautiful people of the country in their best clothes thronging the place. Aurora Towers is an important commercial building and an important landmark. Running parallel to this rd is East Street. It is far less crowded though almost equally posh.
- Tilak Road: One of the longest commercial roads in Pune, Tilak road begins where Laxmi road ends. SP College and Tilak Smarak Mandir are prominent landmarks. Jyotirvidhya Parisansthan is an amateur astronomy club located at the basement of Tilak Smarak Mandir.
- Senapati Bapat Road: Connects BMCC to University of Pune. Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) lies en route. This road is especially spectacular at night when the long string of street lamps begin to glow, the sight being no less breathtaking than Marine Drive's famed Queen's Necklace.
- Dhole Patil Road: This road leads to one of the posh residential and commercial localities of Pune. It also connects to the Boat Club Road which is known for its extravagant real estate prices. Dhole Patil road also boasts of the Ganesh and Hanuman temples which are visited by eastern Puneites.
- Shirole Road:Connects Fergusson College (FC)gate on FC Road to Jangli Maharaj Road. Jog's Bird Breeding Centre lies here. A residential area.
- Ganeshkhind Road
- Prabhat Road: Offshoots from Bhandarkar Road, Kamala Nehru Park list at the Northern end of this road.
- Law College Road: The famous Film and Television Institute of India(FTII) and the National Film Archives of India(NFAI) are located here. Primarily an area for academics.
- Karve Road: One of the most polluted roads in the city, this road is a main artery that connects the heavily populated suburbs like Kothrud and Karve road to the main city.
- Paud Road: An offshoot of Karve road, this road runs from Paud Phata to the village of Paud.
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