What are they spending the money on? How about littering the country with average speed traps, speed humps, election campaigns, immigration policies, euro policies blah blah..... road surface quality is really low down on the priority list. And it's self perpetuating problem because the car hating cardigan wearing local bureaucrats do nothing about it. Year in year out they bleat on about reduced budgets blah blah, but they always find the money to throw a new scamera up don't they?
The roads in this country are an embarrassment. I've seen smoother Bulgarian farm tracks.
They should leave a big box of tarmac and some stamping tools on every street corner and let residents do the repairs themselves. At least it'll be done properly that way, and as soon as they happen and not 3 years after the fact.