5.1 Infrastructure

Regarding infrastructure the town has asphalt and gravel roads connecting it to different weredas in the zone, surrounding zones, towns in the region and Addis Ababa. In the town there are three main roads, The distribution of roads as per the type of construction materials shows that 28.5 km are asphalt, 63.65 km gravel, 4.8 km cobble stone, and 106.37 km compacted earth roads. The town gets 24 hours electric supply from the national grid, and has wireless, mobile and fixed telephone lines, internet services, and a regional branch postal service. The main water supply source of the town is potable water from river, distributed through piped network. To discharge storm water in the town has open and closed ditches.

5.2 Houses

There are 32,191 residential houses. The available construction materials in the town are wood, brick, and stone.

5.3 Transport

There is daily inter-urban transport service to and from 10 towns. The town has a bus station and airport. There is airplane flight service to and from Addis Ababa 6 days/week 6 city buses and minibus taxis give intra-urban transport service.