Autos called a #rickshawstrike. See Mumbai’s spirited response on Twitter

Start treating customers better, stop complaining about Uber and Ola was the message

You can’t keep a good Mumbaiite down, and many responded to the autorickshaw strike on Wednesday with considerable good humour.

Autorickshaws stand idle outside Lokmanya Tilak Terminus during the strike on Wednesday. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

Some were defiant and determined to see the silver lining.

Other couldn’t help but cheerily point out the irony. The strike was called to demand stricter regulation of app-based aggregator services like Ola and Uber, but that’s precisely where most commuters turned when the three-wheelers went off the streets.

In a nutshell, the message was clear: leave the surge complaints to us and get back on the road.