diff --git a/src/prepare-ztm-data.sh b/src/prepare-ztm-data.sh
index 50f54f9..076e11a 100755
--- a/src/prepare-ztm-data.sh
+++ b/src/prepare-ztm-data.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 set -xe -o pipefail
 
+# Go requires presence of this variable with some sensible directory
+export XDG_CACHE_HOME="/tmp/xdg_cache_home/"
+mkdir -p "$XDG_CACHE_HOME"
+
 make normalize csv2tsv/csv2tsv
 
 keep=stop_times.txt