Your short “Oddly enough” column on June 17th, titled “Wooden scooter,” had a small picture and a brief description of wooden scooters, a mode of public transport in the Philippines.

We should bring one and try to make it locally for use in the Chittagong Hill Tracts as well as at other places where suitable. It is environment-friendly and can replace the expensive fuel-guzzling motor scooters.

I would request you and all other dailies to publicise this matter in our national interest, so that such cheap and clean transports can be introduced in suitable areas of Bangladesh.