NIK: New road investments of low quality

Poland's Supreme Audit Office (NIK) has revealed that 70 percent of tested roads, which were put into operation in the years 2008-2013, had defects and failures. The watchdog put blame on GDDKiA, the central authority for national roads, which failed to oversee the quality of nearly 40 percent of roads constructed in that period. Additionally, NIK claims that GDDKiA employed incompetent people without the required experience as project managers. Spokesperson for NIK Paweł Biedziak said that the defects, which include cracked and uneven surface, asphalt shortages and improperly made ​​bituminous surface, appeared from three and half months to 13 months after roads were put into service.