Pune: There’s cutting corners to score a chance to save some money, and then there’s being a danger to others. To avoid paying up to use the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, many motorists have broken down the compound wall of an open plot just 5 km from the Talegaon aka Urse toll plaza and are using a dirt road, instead, which winds through a stretch of 8 km before reconnecting with the expressway past the toll naka.

A vehicle turns into the dirt road just 5 km from the Talegaon aka Urse toll plaza on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway