Huh? What, a bike path? Well, I don’t know, I like to imagine a cycle path on each side of the road between Analamahitsy-Ivandry and Anosy 🤣

I don’t think it would have cost €150 million to add/build 80 centimeters on each side of the road. And then your… 40,000 daily users, I think you would have had them without any problem, lol.

Plus, the 8 kilometers of this journey, by bike at 20-25 km/h, is… about 20 minutes?

Be careful, knowing the appalling local mentality, a safe bike path is essential. Safe from certain idiots with combustion engines… safe from all those vendors everywhere, pedestrians, etc.

And internal combustion engines are prohibited, with a maximum authorized speed of 25 km/h. This means electric scooters, for example, are allowed 🙂 or even unicycles, electric bikes, etc.

And otherwise… why limit yourself to Analamahitsy-Anosy? What’s stopping us from extending and generalizing the main route to all major urban areas? Nothing.

I can perfectly imagine a route from Iavoloha to Andoharanofotsy to Tanjombato to Soanierana to Anosy… or even an Ivato-Tsarasotra-Alarobia or even an Itaosy-Anosy route, also 7 kilometers in 20 minutes?

Yes, many users already get around by bike as best they can, but formalizing it with a specially dedicated route is a tremendous incentive to promote so-called soft mobility.

… soft, but… three times faster than your cars stuck in traffic jams.

If you don’t like pedaling, electric scooters will save you the effort. With their range generally exceeding 25 kilometers, there’s plenty of room for a good number of trips. At least a round trip (2 x 8 kilometers).

Then, with the super Jirama, there’s obviously the problem of recharging… well, like everyone else, you recharge with a generator, looool.

In short, one wonders what the Ministries of the Environment and the Transport Ministry are for in this country. No innovation, no brilliant ideas emerging, always late, always having to tell them what to do.

A little creativity, guys… apart from being “bombarded” with water and the triple 7 hassles, there are plenty of other things to do in this country. Provided you want to, of course.

Rebuilding public roads to modern standards obviously represents a significant amount of work. The lane reserved for internal combustion engines, the cycle path, the sidewalk, the signage…

Of course, all this is less flashy and spectacular than a cable car, isn’t it? But so much cheaper… and so much more efficient, right?

In a country where the average income is €2 per day… spending that €2 on a round-trip cable car ride seems a bit optimistic. Not even a dream, really.

On the other hand, investing in a bicycle or a scooter—yes, the spectrum of users suddenly becomes… popularly much broader.

A quick aside: are your 40,000 cable car users per day going to have to queue every day like here? When you see the queues for just 1,600 people, good luck 🤣

Here in France, I don’t queue, I buy and load my ticket onto my Navigo pass on demand… and all this via my phone’s NFC 🤣