totsno taka, why you think they don't build proper roads? Once they do their jobs as they should they would be without work they think and people would stop complaining about potholes, stop damaging their cars using Bulgarian roads. Think what will happen to all the small companies repairing tires and rims if all the potholes would be gone.

how about trying to give such projects for execution to companies that have higher moral standards than GBS. GBS for 20 years has been stealing money from their workers, from the European funded projects, from the state funded projects. When will the authorities wake up and put GBS's management in prison for all that? A company like GBS will never be able to operate in any other civilized country.
Ha-ha, "GBS...agreed on a 4 per cent discount...", Mr Plevenliev, let me translate this to you: in 6 months GBS will ask for at least 4 per cent increase [...]

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The building of this Dragalevtzi intersection is a disgrace and makes a mockery of all Sofia people. Have any of you tried to pass there during the last year or so?
There were usually a cople of bored workers doing nothing, an excavator that is not working and maybe a truck now and then stoping for a while.
It has been only recently that they have really started working. This is because the construction company had BGN9,5 "temporary payments".
Currently no self-respacting construction company in Bulgaria would build anything unless it sees at least [...]

Read the full comment some of the money the state owes to it. The opposite would mean sponsoring the very same state to which taxes were already payed. What construction company today can afford to invest tens of millions in matterials, labor and effort with no certainty about payments from the goverment.
In a normal country this should have been opperational months ago.
And no government official should give me nonsence of the sort that there is no money to build roads in Bulgaria. In 20 years Bulgaria has only built 70 km of highway while countries like Croatia have built 2000 in less than 10!

If I recall correctly, the cost of this project has escalated drastically (around 50% increase, if I remember correctly). Looking at the contractor's ability to accelerate the construction programme I can see s few possible reasons:
a). The orignal contracted time for completion was far too generous
b). The contractor has benefited from the extremely mild winter and has been able to progress the works faster than anticipated
c). The contractor does not have much other works on his books and, therefore, has been able to direct more resources at this project

Too be honest i don't want to risk my life going out on a bike. First of all there would be the problem with drivers who think they can use that part of the road since there will be no holes and second being an asthma patient i don't think the air would do my lungs a lot of good.

What a shame Pete that you only consider the car as an option. What about first get cycling paths, pedestriant's pavements (tratoarite sa za peshechoditsi!) and the public transport in an acceptable state for much less money than streets cost... So all Sofiantsite, even those without cars, will profit from it...

Bravo, finally at least something will be finished. What about the rest of the ring road? What about Liulin highway?

How about finishing the south part of the ring before even thinking of starting the northern part? Give people an option to make a choice where to go instead of creating traffic jams all around Sofia at the same time.