Swargate Bus Station

Swargate Bus Station
Swargate Bus Station
	Intercity and Intracity bus station
Location	Jedhe Chowk, Satara Road, Swargate, Pune
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Owned by	Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation,; Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited
Connections	Pune BRTS,; Pune Metro (planned)
Construction
Structure type	At grade station
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes

Swargate Bus Station consists of two adjacent bus stations in Pune, operated by the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) and the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML). It is located in the locality of Swargate in Pune, opposite the Swargate Police Station.^[1]

MSRTC section

Swargate Bus stand (MSRTC section)

The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation operates a bus station a Swargate. Approximately 1800 buses are estimated to arrive and depart from the terminus.^[2] Buses of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation also pass through the bus station. In 2012, the traffic arm of the Pune Police proposed to split the bus station into different bus stations across the city to ease traffic congestion.^[3]

Buses bound for Satara, Karad, Belgaum, Kolhapur, Hubli, Ratnagiri, Chiplun, Miraj, Sangli, Mahabaleshwar, and Solapur leave from the Swargate ST station.^[4] Both the MSRTC and KSRTC operate services to the neighbouring state capital of Bangalore from Swargate while the former operates some of its services to the state capital of Mumbai via Lonavala as well.^[5]^[6]

Swargate Bus stand (PMPML section)

The PMPML section of the bus station is named Chattrapati Shahu Maharaj bus station.^[8] It is the common terminal point on the Hadapsar-Swargate and Katraj-Swargate sections of the Pune BRTS.^[2]