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 65.5 km are gravel, 6.16  km asphalt, 80m cobble stone, 1km red ash and 30.7km earth pressed roads.

The town gets 24 hours electric supply from the national grid, and has wireless, mobile and fixed telephone lines, internet services. The main water supply sources of the town is potable water from lake distributed through piped network and 4 public taps. To discharge storm water in the town closed and open ditch were built.

5.2 Housing

There are 9893 government and private houses in the town. The housing backlog is estimated to be 1406. Construction materials available in the town are stone, sand, and wood.

5.3 Transport

There is daily inter-urban transport service to and from 12 towns (Agena, Agerkit, Wate, Jimma, Hossana, Darge, Kose, Addis Ababa, Toleiy, Wolega, Imidber, Hawariyat). There are also 200 Bajaj’s taxis and 20 horse drown carts giving intra-urban transport service. The town has a bus station.