After MiD DAY reported how over a 100 vehicles jostle for one parking spot in Mumbai, it emerges that the city’s fleet of 42,000 cabs might widen the ratio even more, competing as they are with private vehicles for parking space at select locations in the city and the suburbs.

The system of operating prepaid taxi stands outside various railway stations, and of share-a-taxi stands on several arterial roads in the city has apparently pronounced the scarcity of parking room for motorists by stomping on what little space is available.