With the private taxi, bus and lorry unions calling a one-day strike, the city will have to depend on government-run buses, the Metro rail and the autorickshaw services. The unions held a meeting with the state transport minister Subhas Chakraborty on Thursday afternoon, but it failed to resolve the deadlock over banning 15-year-old vechiles on the roads.
The minister said in a press conference later that the state government would support the transporters’ unions if they appealed before the Calcutta High Court for extending the 31 July deadline before which all vechicles have to be replaced.
