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, while the remaining are secondary, collector and local roads. The distribution of roads as per the materials of construction shows that 5 km asphalt, 13 km gravel, 1.6 km cobble stone, and 15 km compacted earth roads.

The town gets 24 hours electric supply from the national grid, and has wireless, mobile and digital fixed telephone lines, internet services, and a postal service with 70 boxes. The main water supply source of the town is ground water distributed through piped network and 15 public taps. The town has open ditches to discharge storm water.

Housing

There are 5,416 residential houses and 805 condominium houses in the town. Houses were dominantly built of wood and mud walls, Corrugated Iron Sheet (CIS) roofs, cement and mud flooring, polypropelene sheet and chipwood ceilings. Wood, stone, sand, Hollow Concrete Blocks construction materials are available in the town.

Transport

There is daily inter-urban transport service to and from five main towns. The town has a bus station for incoming and outgoing passengers. There are also 15 Bajajs, 7 taxis and 205 horse drown carts giving intra-urban transport service.