With no breakthrough yet, the strike seems likely to continue over the weekend in Mumbai as pressure from unions mount
Talks between the drivers' union and government failed to find a solution
A flyer, who had just landed in Mumbai, tweeted saying he had arrived more than an hour ago but could not manage transport owing to the Ola and Uber strike. He said prepaid taxis were available either, and rickshaw queues were ridiculously long. "Looks like I'm walking to the station," he had tweeted.
While many cabbies remained offline, kaali-peeli cabs and cool cabs cashed in on the deficit. In fact, the Maharashtra government had suggested that app-based cabbies convert their cabs into cool cabs so that they come under the purview of the transport department. The city taxi scheme 2017 was brought in to monitor aggregators, but the companies got a stay on it.
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