After resisting cab aggregators like Uber and Ola, Mumbai taxi unions have realised there is a better way to attract customers than holding them to ransom. They are considering introducing a mobile app through which users can book black-n-yellow cabs, potentially paving the way for a sea change in the way the city’s public transportation system functions.

Union leaders are to have a meeting shortly to work out the modalities of their mobile app. The black-and-yellow taxis not only lost patrons, but several cabbies have themselves gone over to mobile aggregator companies.