Taking a leaf out of the Ahmedabad civic authorities book, the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) road department is planning to appoint a consultancy agency specialising in road design to ease the traffic woes in the city.

With a view to implement the same innovative methods here, which have been employed by the authorities in Ahmedabad and Surat while constructing roads there, the PMC aims to build roads that are safe, pleasant, disabled friendly and consistent. The civic body has shortlisted four agencies that have recently carried out similar work in Ahmedabad and Surat.