Roads for People organized a views exchange meeting on “Rickshaw use in Dhaka city:  An Overview of the Arguments For and Against” at CIRDAP auditorium on 7 May 2006. About 85 high-level government officers and members of civil society participated. Most of those present expressed the importance of keeping rickshaws, as they provide convenient and inexpensive transport, are environmentally-friendly, do not require fuel, are particularly important for vulnerable groups such as women and the elderly, are extremely popular, and provide needed employment for hundreds of thousands of the country’s poorest citizens.