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our forces put that to a test black places all cycle because whenever you cycle your notes on your teams at your meetings, the environment, that's the worst from you can. we will tell you about the initiative. the government has undertaken the day to make the roads safe for cyclic at cycling. this ford is gaining traction on the continent, but african rises are still very much under represented at the top level. we will find out why the hello i'm christine one glass. it's good to have your company. have you ever thought about how writing a bicycle that make getting around easier in your city, bicycles have a long history in africa, especially as a means of transport. but in the big cities today, it's not very many people use

a bicycle to commute and they're all good reasons for that. safety being a major one. according to international standards, there are only 4210 offices of road networks that are considered safe. but commute to cycling in all of africa and most of those roads are in just 3 countries spring you can to pennsylvania and south africa. so by that standard, it is essentially unsafe to commit 5 bicycle in most parts of africa. so given that we wanted to get a feel of what it's life to get around by bike in a major city. we've picked africa's most popular city to check it out. lagos is going to be very congested. people can spend up to 3 hours a day stuck in traffic that adds up to a significant amount of time and loss of productivity. so could using a bicycle like this one help i'll call needs pressure by me and release that you pulled me up with that to the test. as the

price is not for the same process. know that because that size and the can be recorrect, which means when you cycle, you're putting yourself, i believe, of accidents. the good news for me because we don't put the notes. i don't think out the upstairs. i think there is get to the flood. that's good. to go we, i'm in my car right now. if i look my doors, i can assume i have some safety net that nobody's going to come and harass me. place i'm gonna do it and i'm 2nd i have windows were scared to help with that's the truth. driving might do the tape up, but it's slow,

especially meeting dr. howard. one average people, indigo. v as in traffic, that's about $45.00 working days each year the. it's till i spend most of my time going traffic actually to think about it, because you spend peaceful hours in the office and i'm buckland, do it because i'm trying to keep the traffic ends in the end of not pizza. and the traffic is ridiculous. it's crazy. we also play the traffic to work and sometimes they are productive because of the time. but it's, i know that the most of the time spent in trustee not only affects up to the cdc, but also contributes to stress and mental. so let's see what i have to say in some places i felt really on steve, do i have to get off the bike and drove by car until i reached the sci fi area, the

crew here, and they go the okay, so looking at the labels by bike is not as smooth, right? just see it and that's also the case in compiler walking and cycling or the most popular means of transporting uganda, but are also the most unsafe. now there was a concerted effort to make the country's roads safer for people citing. the government has developed the so called non motorized transport policy or in m t to a chief at i'll be talking to an open planet in compile a bounce it off to this report on initiative. busy in uganda that's working to promote citing as a sustainable way to get around sunday mornings open,

helpless in composite an opportunity for us the my wages to have a variety to see the 9 year old is the youngest member of fun cycling. you've got a group of locust, frankly, associates driving where they, i know, cause it's fun and you can move by tre, do where they are class you can't move on. you have to send you like an affiliate of critical must you can find cycling has about a 100 members the group bridge you let it meets once a week to promote cycling as a sustainable fitness and clean them up. really to option you placing all cycles because whenever you cycle, you're not putting your team at us anything the environment, there is no gas or any emission. the bike is putting out it's fun neo body, your legs and your mind fits. what cycling side by side with heavy traffic to

narrow roads can be dangerous. to address that about plan is what's that you have to reduce to invest more in member to raise trustworthy infrastructure to push the need to drive around the neighbors to go from home to charge, to work from home to a shop, to the supermarket. these are japanese that can be easily made with none with arise transport even in the central business district. i think it's a service that people creating smotts us. he sees more beautiful cities, but here's the population. compulsory is now. pilots in the city is 1st cost free zone. this'll quoting m t. zone stretches for close to kilometers, strictly for cyclists and pedestrians. which is already seeing its benefits, roads. not douglas started to move vapours. road is apple instructed to move people the moment the roads focus on

the vehicles and even though people didn't download. so that's why we're saying, you know, all the interventions we are making as a government. that must be what you for an empty facilities. this tubs rosie my weed, you, when, if i heavy traffic bushes are on the very, very highest low stead. but one thing is you have to slow down, but don't store and that should completes how 20 kilometers for the day. what we do wishes that infrastructure can be improved so that more people can join her for a right my next case initiated the call free zone pilot concept, and you can just capital kampala that you just heard about in the report, amanda got piano is an open and regional panel she chaise the national physical planning board and uganda and she's to be the vice president of the world psyching

alliance. that's an issue advocating for bicycling, transportation. welcome to data being use africa. amanda. tell us more about why uganda is putting emphasis on psyching as a means of transport as stated in the countries non motorized transport plan. so you're going to is going to be more inclusive in terms of infrastructure design of not also because just working on cycling, but because those are the majority people that down the road for right for long they've been from within the district. and that will be for what's in the cause, the leading view in so much attention for so many as well. i think it's now the right time for you've done that, but example and that he was face to those that these are probably going to tell us more about this, this concept said you initiated the call for a zone house of working on and what's the objective to the main of just to was road safety and actually reducing the congestion in that area,

improving the air quality bits of business and also in nibbling everybody to enjoy . that's this downtown town and that's pissed was always very crowded. so the main objective was to facilitate oh, smooth flow of traffic, but also frustrated the majority of the use as a restaurant space. as you're saying, right, a lot of people already committed a bicycle in uganda. so or at least in the capital. but so it's not necessarily about convincing people to get on the bicycle because people already all um, but we know the statistics tell us that less than 2000 kilometers is approved droids for striking according to the international standards. and you can just give us a sense amount of what, what it's going to take this effort financially and otherwise to make the roads safer for people on bicycles and people walking in. you gotta i don't think that it's very easy as easy as you continue because the people that are cycling right

now, i don't think that they're doing it out of choice. i think they're doing it because they have no other choice of moving around and about and what they are trying to do is look at spaces for psych least and position so they can feel appreciated. and that, that mode is, i'm with the transport and they can choose it whenever they come. so we have trying to normalize it, but it's not that easy because we have wound or so lose this number. if you don't provide for safe on the truck to spaces for them, it's not going to be permanent. if everybody wants to have a car now to move conveniently because we know tablets for to to get. so that's not really the case. it's not as easy to these that i to the issue of all the cost is for the reach. so when you have a card is to this is, is, is higher. you see, reset that a to just do this. so we still have to continue that and that we also as good people are writing for walking us call use us, but also in the bring the car use up to feel that. yeah,

i don't talk to be to show myself that them reach of poor was a recall, was a bicycle with them looking. so we still have the mindset issue. if we look at the likes of copenhagen, amsterdam, these are ranks the best cities will citing phase, got entire bridges, for example, dedicated to cyclist. you're talking about copy and paste all these templates replicable in our major cities. or do we need a totally different approach approaches in, in african cities, a good city, it has its own template. if somebody's did quote it for any city detroit unclipped another city and tried to replicate exactly as it is. because we have different cultures. we have different norms, but what is very important in this us get the details that the human behavior of movement is the same, was white people. i've come for the inconvenience, the $150.00, they want to short trips, they want to pay list for the troops. so that is uniform and i think that's a good thing to corporate. then the rest of the detail is something that has to

comply with the local context. so we don't want to be on that down. we don't want to be caught up and take good one to remain as competitive, but provides of screwed space for people to be safe on that note as well. i mean, just give us a sense of coming back to, to citing specifically how when i was cities, i'll daily lives the best that. if most people, for example, got used to getting around on their bicycle. i mean, people are spending so much money in transport when fuel the fuel prices are raising every day and the time you're spending in congestion is something we suddenly get buck people with benefits a lot in terms of a reduction in the cost of travel induction. the time of travel show of benefits because they'll vista guess is that going high with we are sitting in offices, we have sitting in traffic children that's sitting in traffic. i think when in nipple to brentwood school, they bike wouldn't enable people waiting to us by filling in maple hills,

livelihoods hills. so to see for me these and the vis you also save government money until people should be connected to their places in the most convenient of both healthy way. and this is by clicking unlocking. so thanks is the something that 2 of us but doesn't seem to seem that's well. yes, on friday, amanda w. r o. thank you. to next we go to kenya where the bicycle has long been a mode of transport and also a means to earn a living for many people. and as we were about to see, and i'll an extra for things are changing, but i'll corresponded felix money in the mid one problem bicycle. oh no. he says he doesn't plan on giving up. he's to wheeler any time soon. morning. just outside bicycle. right as well. just 1st monday, this is how he makes honey who up was duty on a good day,

or even when businesses bad, you weren't deluxe the money to pay the rent for one way or another. the bike is a stepping stone. i mean, i want to go to bed hungry, the kids won't sleep with empty stomachs and life will go on growing up just at the north. i'm a bicycle for all the major and we just need us to just in the afternoon and in his community. this week, not to be taught him from us patting to be a by corner. like i said, when my 1st business i had promised myself as a young person, that i would buy a bike with my 1st pay slip. let's say when i got my 1st salary, i met up with an old teacher. i was setting his bike for 14 years. and so i ended up buying it for 10 years, and i still have a bike, i don't mean ever since 1997 says $97.00 of equal but the bicycle is off and the fast full of ability for many young people in the side of africa if

it's not on one, then it becomes every child's dream to one day on a bike, much as they are rapidly being replaced by motorcycle. little recycling machine has maintained its place in google africa, with most of the people in have been sent as using it for fits and effectively. 2 times are changing and motorcycles are becoming more popular. they have capacity to say more goods and are fast compared to the bicycle. however, just let that look afford one at the moment. and so he has to make do what he has to keep like you do, i. e, with the bike. when you were carrying goods, you have an advantage of it. so one from the markets who's carrying a 2nd potatoes on his back. okay, up up in the upper left is literally if you put the sack on the bike and oil, the rates of which he will get tied buses, you on the bike or it is way different to know quite a whole lot of folks even that's just part of a psyche continue preferred customer. the bikes remains one of the most precious

commodity well, from one way of earning a living on a bike to another. professional cycling in africa historically doesn't have his funded foundation, like other sports. but that's changing. and over the past decade, there are a number of organizations focused on bridging the gap between african youth and the sports of professionals. likely. so many obstacles exist for africans aspiring to become elite cyclists who want to test their scales with the best of europe. some have nothing to do with the sport. when you button you're in the office. the 1st challenge is to get to the document and the visa and a passport to come through to the euro. for the other existing obstacles, there's health, the organization team, africa rising, founded in 2007 is working to grow this board as cycling on the cotton and they

provide parts, equipment and coaching. and i don't want to be the face of africans, likely. i want to just help train teach, give all of our experience to african countries to run their support. we have been focused since 2019 and working with benita cycling and west africa because that's kind of an untouched area of the african continent. time focused on the youth to africa rising was to find the next been am gourmet. the 23 year old is one of only 2 black africans competing it this summer's tour to fraud. at the 20220 to tell you he became the 1st black african to win a grand tor stage team. africa rising, believes in africa, cycling potential,

i a 100 percent believe we'll see an african champion of the 2 or the friends. i wouldn't be doing this if i didn't think that was possible. it's a 100 percent possible. the talent is on the african continent. i that i see it every day because i'm on the ground and there's so much potential and the only thing, well the, the only things they're lacking is you know, access to equipment, access to good training programs and coaches mechanics. um, you know, we go in and we teach all of that africa will see its 1st major psych when event in 2025. when rolanda hoss the u. c, i rode world championships generating new excitement in african cycling.

my next guest was his 1st bicycle at the age of 14 and 6 years later he was a professional cyclist competing at a very high level in the sports, including the 0 did highly competition. so i'm guess what jim joins me from to how does the welcome to data being use africa. so in google, cycling as a sport is, is not very accessible in africa. so how did you get into it? i think you're going to show that yes, i need to say it's not an easy thing to to, to get into the, to, especially for a time on the dis, fundies community. and so i going to eat and i just didn't. cato as far as my my products and i was younger than a 100 kids on the bicycle because house. so i asked the guys how's enjoying the site and crap is something that i joined and then yeah, translate actually began. but when i joined to try and let me know how do i i yeah, i mean i find that incredible um that in, in 6 years old or a little bit more,

you are able to, to improve and then us in on what it's actually like competing as a professional cyclist and what does it take to perform at, at, at a very high level, like you ones that it too. so it takes a lot of sacrifice, a lot of hardening because let me know, and you've got a disagreement dedicated to, you may know what you're doing, you know, because you spend a lot of time away from your family. that's not easy. and you have to put him on every day, like kind of saying, you know, your training and your team asking your crazy sleeping hours. you know, all these things they are in, you being the best that possible actually that you can pete. so right is business, you know, you? yeah. i, i was looking at you instagram and i see that and you spend a lot of time training on the road on the bicycle, on the road and i wanted, is it safe? because we've been hearing from a number of people from different parts of the content and the program today,

just talking about how unsafe it is being on the road is the it has changed, you know, it's normalized safe as it used to be. and that i've seen people, they need to be easy, it all about side use the don't. and i mean like the old just a one. just a also just say 1st big shadow and there was and make it mostly for everyone. it's good for, for funding findings, right? to get a bicycle to somebody as well. the to the front is cycling most prestigious competition . and last, yet there were no black ride is taking pods. and in general, they are all very few black riders who can actually say they've taken part in the toyota front. from your perspective, what is the reason for, for the lack of this diversity in, in the sports at that level? i think, yeah, most today, right? as a payments, are they coming from from out of control? and 1st of all, we have not to can see us testing. so the i know right us getting the reach to

europe. so it is not easy to get into your options because it has okay, right. i know its, these are issues and all that kind of stuff, you know, but we knew but enough can see jesus and it can be easy. so we definitely need to grow and get more people into, into sites and what else was in have own oxygen. see that focus on getting blood site east into the 21st part of the stage where you're not looking great, right? i mean, i find that interesting that you say we don't have an african team. um, so the, the support community needs to be developed further in africa and what do you think it will take to to be able to do that? what kind of investment is needed? what kind of action is needed to develop cycling is both nafrica so that we do have an african team to represent us at the to the front one day. i don't think we do need some people to, to, to invest into, into the project. the right people are running these projects. we are not doing

a project on the own interest on a huge chance of getting provide us with that right? as these to get, you know, the best way of getting people to messages for anybody really able to go to the 20 fast to return it. so many other reasons. somebody as well. um you, you sort of let us in on. it's a little bit but you, you come from a disadvantage background in south africa, you've gone on to compete. as i said at a high level at the school, just give us a sense. um, very quickly, before we let you go about how, how cycling has changed your life to this i can just change my life. and so many ways, you know, and you get to talk about the, you get to meet to different people and different kinds of website do such a very high game demand. it's fault, you know, so you need to be disciplined. you're changing your pricing and all that, you know, so yes, i think it's probably so many things you know, so you put into hardware, but i get that also is just the whole thought, you know,

put into how to make and that is awesome. all right, so we'll leave it the thanks so much sound. good. so jim, talking to us from south africa, we appreciate your time. good. having your data menus, africa. can you so much for helping me? as you know, i'm now seriously considering getting on the by small maybe it's too late for my pro correct, but i can still read the health benefits and do my bit for the environment while i'm at it. so how about you? do you think cycling could be a way to get around in your city? well, that's it for now. be sure to check out as a stories on d. w dot com, forward slash africa will also on facebook and twitter. i'll see you next time, bye. have you slightly, if you're going to do the

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