Slowly, but surely, the campaign is showing results, as Mumbaikars take initiative, start filing complaints

In the second week of the campaign undertaken by MiD DAY-Radio One with the Mumbai Traffic Police, Regional Transport Office (RTO) and the taxi union, 33 offenders were booked. A positive change is that commuters are showing more interest in the campaign.



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Reporter: Roshan Rizvi
Place: Dadar
Time: 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Offenders caught: 5
After being booked, Harinath Mishra, a taxi driver, said, "I never refused. If I had stopped exactly where the passenger had signalled me, there would have been a traffic jam."

To this, Ashok Mhatre, the passenger who was refused, retorted, "He didn't stop, nor did he give any signal that he would." Ravindra Bodke, the constable who booked him, said, "Not stopping for the commuter means a refusal, so we fined him."

Reporter: Mritunjay Kumar
Location: CST
Time: 9:30 am to 11:30 am
Offenders caught: 2
When passengers came out from the station in the morning, virtually every cabbie was willing to take them to their respective destinations. But at 11 am ASI Suresh Walekar caught taxi driver A Akram for not taking a passenger to Nariman Point and for jumping the traffic signal.