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Sit back and marvel at 14 minutes of (mostly) great bike infrastructure in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Sit back and marvel at 14 minutes of (mostly) great bike infrastructure in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Lemmy

We should put our multimodal, open source code to work in that city. Who’s in?

Dec 4, 2024 at 1:22pmWeb
Show threadTwoafrosDec 4, 2024
I wish I could say all of Addis is like this but it’s not. The city started doing a lot of construction for better pedestrian and bike lanes earlier this year, which is where these bike lanes were built. The construction is ongoing but it seems like they’ve abandoned the bike lanes for some reason. The current bike lanes only cover a very limited segment of the city
Show threaddingusDec 4, 2024
It started off fantastic, but then the bike lane abruptly ended (not even?) halfway through and then the biker had to dangerously ride into the rkad with all of the other cars. This isn’t great bike infrastructure. It was only like that for a small area. The rest was non-existent bike infrastructure.
Show threadShowroom7561Dec 4, 2024
Wow, it went from ultra-developed and super modern to… slum in less than 14 minutes. Kind of depressing.
Show threadTrufi AssociationDec 4, 2024
Many cities in the global South are like this – but not all have great bike lanes for even limited stretches.
Show threadShowroom7561Dec 4, 2024
I don’t want to single-out Africa, because you see the same in North America with tent cities, etc.