the 6 distributions presenter for me to go into games. i've played insurmountable obstacle. little girl football on 45 minutes on d, w w. 164 winning offer is available world wide. and for every language level, learning german has never been simpler german to go. the hello and welcome to the special edition of the that'd be news africa june. 3rd is, you guessed it, both bicycle bay and in this program we're looking at how the bicycle can improve the quality of life in africa. traffic jams are a serious problem and also seen the label. so you can spend up to 3 hours days stuck in traffic flow. can you use a bicycle instead?

our horses put that to a test. black places all staples because whenever you cycle, you're not putting your team at your for meeting the environment that's the worst from you can. so we will tell you about the initiative. the government has undertaken today to make the roads safe for slightly at cycling. this ford is gaining traction on the continents, 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. so commute to cycling in all of africa and most of those roads are in just 3 countries being uganda, pennsylvania, and south africa. so by that standard, it is essentially unsafe to commit by a 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

cycling in may go, he's not for the same process. know that because that's, i mean, i drive up here and they both can be wrecked, which means when you cycle, you are putting yourself, i believe, of accidents the i'm going to do those sound for dr. i know, i don't think the out the upstairs there is get to the flood. that's good to go. we . i'm in my car right now it's i look my doors. so my windows, i have some safety net so that nobody's going to come and harassing me, play someone do it, and i'm safe, green and heaven knows we're scared to help with the that's true. driving might be the tape ups, but it's slow assessing. we need drive our one average people and they go spend up

to 3 hours in traffic that's about $45.00 working days each year. the. it's till i spend most of my time in traffic actually to think about it because you spend each for us in the office and an investment do it. because i'm trying to teach the traffic ends in the end of note between the traffic. because this ridiculous is crazy. we walk up lady traffic to walk me. sometimes they opened up the president the but the excel know that the most with times painting trustees not only affect opposite us tvc but also contributes to stress and mental sexy. what do i have to say in some places i felt really on steve, do i have to get off the bike? i'm to buy car until i reach 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. and compiler walking and cycling or the most popular means of transport and you kind of but are also the most unsafe. now there was a concerted effort to make the country's ro is safer for people. citing the government has developed the so called non motorized transport policy or in mt to achieve that, i'll be talking to an open panda in compile a bounce it off to this report on an initiative. busy in uganda that's working to promote citing as a sustainable way to get around sunday mornings open hope list are

incompatible an opportunity for us the my wages to have a variety to see the vin mania or the is the youngest member of fun cycling. you've got a group of lucas, frankly, if those is saving way, i know class, it's fun and you can buy tre. d, where they are close to can to 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 ability to option to you places all cycles because whenever you cycle, you're not putting your team at yours and meeting the environment. there is no gas or any emission the bike is putting out. it's fun, neil body, your legs and your mind fits. what circling side by side really heavy traffic on

narrow roads can be dangerous to address that about plan is what's that? yes. so it is to invest more in member to raise trustworthy infrastructure to push the need to drive around the neighbors to go from home to charges, 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, it's iris that people creating smart cities more beautiful cities. but here's the apple pie lation. competitors now by low to the city is 1st cost free zone. this according empty zone stretches for close to kilometers. strictly for cyclists and pedestrians will still reach is already seeing its benefits. roads. not douglas started to move vapours, rods. apple instructed to move people the moment roads focus on the,

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 wages. when, if i have you checked the bushes are on the very, very highest stead. but one thing is you have to slow down, but don't store and the zip code please, how 20 kilometers for the day. what would you wish is 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 kind of capital compiler that you just heard about in the report, amanda. and got piano is an open and regional panel. she chose the national physical planning boards 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 would be for what's in the cause and be needing, give in so much attention for so many as well. i think it's now the right time for you've done to, to, to, but example. and that he was face to those that these are probably going to tell us more about this, this concept that you initiated the call for a zone house of working on. and what's the objective, are the main object 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 this downtown tone. and that's, this was always very crowded. so the main objective was to frustrate tips, o smoke 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 but we know the statistics tell us that listen to a 1000, kill me, says approved droids for so i think according to the international standards, and you can just give us a sense of mind 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, or i don't think that it's very easy as easy as you are getting it 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 we're trying to do is look its best as for psych least and position so they can feel appreciated. and that that mode is um with the transport and they can choose it whenever they can. so we have trying to normalize it, but it's not that easy because we are going to also lose this number. if you don't provide for safe, attractive spaces for them. it's not going to be permanent with everybody wants to have a car now to move conveniently because we don't have those facilities yet. so that's not really the test. it's not as easy to these that on to the issue of all the car is for the reach. so when you have a car, this to this is, this is higher. you see reset that a to this to this. so we still have to contain that and that we also respect people are writing for walking us car use us but also in the bring the car use up to feel

that. yeah, i don't have to be to show myself at them reach of what was the code was a bicycle, but the looking. so we still have the mindset issue. if we look at the likes of copenhagen amsterdam, these are rags the best cities for fighting bays. got entire bridges, for example dedicates, it's a 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 dig for it for any city to try unquote, another city and tried to ripley kits, exactly as it is. because we have different cultures, we have different norms. but what is very important in this us get the details of the human behavior of movement is the same, was white people i've come for the west covina is the 150. 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 cook. then the rest of the detail is something that has to comply

with the local context. so we don't want to be set down. we don't want to be caught up and take good one to remain as competitive, but provides a road 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 spinning so much money on transport when fuel the fuel prices are raising every day and that the time you're spending in congestion is something we suddenly get buck people who benefits a lot in terms of a reduction in the cost of travel induction the time of the travel show of benefits because they'll this tickets is abilene high with we are sitting in offices, we have sitting in traffic to goodness, sitting in traffic. i think when enable to brentwood screwed by bike wouldn't enable people waiting to us by feelings enable to 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 cycling and we'll keep 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, you know, an extra for things are changing, but i'll corresponded felix money in the mid one problem, the bicycle. oh no. he says he doesn't plan on giving up. he's to wheeler any time soon. just outside bicycle. right as well. just 1st monday, this is how he makes send me the who up was duty on a good day,

or even when businesses bad. you weren't deluxe the money to pay the rent for $1.00 way or another. the bike is a stepping stone. i mean, i won't 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 40. we just need us to just in the afternoon and in his community. this need not to be taught him from us patting to be a by corner. like i said, one plus business i had promised myself as a young person that's 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 mean, ever since 1997, 697 of equal. but the bicycle is often the platform 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. to will cycling machine has maintained its place in google africa, with most of the people in app on centers using it for fitz scenario activities. the times are changing, and motorcycles are becoming more popular. they have capacity to fairly more goods and are foster compared to the bicycle. however, just like the afford one at the moment. and so he has to make do what he has to keep light. duty way with the bike. when you were carrying goods, you have an advantage of it. so one from the markets who was 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, but it is way difference with no qual, connecting folks even us, just as a psyche continue 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 a solid 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 sport of professional cycling. or many obstacles exist for africans aspiring to become a lead cyclists who want to test their scales with the best of europe. some have nothing to do with this board when you button you're in the office. the 1st challenge is to get to the document into a visa and a pass. busy to come through to the euro for the other existing obstacles, there's health, the organization team. erica rising, founded in 2007 is working to grow the sport of cycling on the continent. they

provide parts, equipment and coaching some 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 i'm working with been in 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 5 and next been am gourmet. the 23 year old is one of only 2 black africans competing at 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 at the tour to friends. i wouldn't be doing this if i didn't think that was possible. it's a 100 percent possible, but talented is on the african continent. i. so 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 got 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 guess what jim joins me from to how does the welcome to data being used for test on google, citing as a sport is, is it 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 it, especially for last time on the dis, fundies community. and so i going to eat and i just didn't. cato as one of those when i'm a product and was younger than a 100 kids on the bicycle bus house. so i asked the guys, how's it joined? the site and crap is something that i joined and then yeah, that's lead actually began. but when i joined to try but maybe know how do 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 cyclists, 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 hardnet as well. no, and you've gotta be disagreement dedicated to, you may know what you're doing. you know, because you spend enough time away from your family that's not easy. and you have to put him on every day, like kind of the same. you know, it's a new you get to, you may have seen your crazy sleeping hours. you know, all these things they have in you being the best that possible actually that you can piece. so right is this is, you know, you see here i was looking at your instagram and i see that you spend a lot of time training on the road on the bicycle on the road. and no one did. is it safe? because we've been hearing from a number of people from different parts of the content in the program today. just

talking about how unsafe it is being on the road. yeah. is the yeah, it has changed. you know, it's more of my safe as it used to be and that i've seen people, they need to be easy to all about side use the don't. and i mean like the old just everyone just a, you know, so just a photo speak to shut down their own and make it mostly for everyone's going. it's good for, for funding findings ready 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're all very few black riders who can actually say they've taken part in the toyota funds. 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 pay monthly coming from from out of control. and 1st of all we have no, i can see that 1st thing. so the i know right of doing that breach to you. so it

is not easy to get into your options because enough. okay. right. i know it's, these are issues and all that kind of stuff, you know, but we need 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 slightly 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 this is the support community needs to be developed further in africa and, 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 total funds, one day a year. okay. we do need some people to and to, to invest into, into the project. the right people are making these projects we have but not 3

because it would be a huge 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 very quickly before we let you go about how, how cycling has changed your life. it says i can just change my life. and so many ways, you know, and you get to try the, you get to meet to different people and different kinds of website do such a very high game demand in spot. you know, so you need to be disciplined. you're explaining it probation, and all that. you know, so yes, i think it has to be so many things you know, so you put into how do we achieve when i get this out there?

you know, so it's just a whole thought you know, put into how to make and that is awesome. all right, so we'll leave it the thanks so much on get so jim, talking to us from south africa, we appreciate your time. good. having your data menus africa. all right, thank you so much bye. any. as you know, i'm now seriously considering getting on the by small maybe it's too late for my pro career, but i can still read the health benefits and do my bid 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 app for tower. also on facebook and twitter. i'll see you next time by a happy spikey. if you're going to do the

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