The price of roads in Albania, Berisha: 10 times higher than the cost that comes out of their manuals

The President of the DP, Sali Berisha held a meeting on the 2024 draft budget with experts and leaders of the Departments of Energy, Territorial Planning, Forests, Fisheries, Waters, Agriculture, Infrastructure-Transport and Sports at the Rogner Hotel.

In his speech, Berisha focused on investments in the infrastructure sector, saying that the price of roads in Albania is at least 10 times higher than the price that comes out of their manuals.

Berisha ; If you stop at infrastructure, there is no other sector in Albania, Europe and the world where taxpayers' money is stolen like on the streets of Albania. It is already a fact that the price of the roads in Albania is at least 10 times greater than the price that comes out of their manuals.

Edi Rama has brought to the infrastructure a method which he used during the years as mayor, to collect fines.

What was the method?

The builder who built the palace, let's say it had 4 entrances, got permission for only 2 entrances. For the other two, he would get another permit because he had to pay another bribe.

What happens now? There is a division into lots, with which the price of the construction of the ring in Tirana is 50% more than the price of the construction of the Kalimash tunnel, which was expensive because, as you know, it also had its own problem.

Despite all the problems that occurred, the price paid by the citizens of Tirana to build the ring anywhere in the field was more than 50% more than the price that was paid, I am not saying about Kërraba that it is even cheaper, but the price of the construction of the Tunnel of Kalimash per kilometer.

The Arbri road costs 11 million at a time when a highway in Croatia, 27 meters wide, is being built with 2.8 million euros.

The Arbri road costs 11 million euros when a highway of the largest size with all works of art, 27-28 meters wide, is built in the USA with 12 million euros.

Kardhiq-Delvinë road, the unfinished part ends because a large part was finished before 2013, from 70 million euros to 240 million euros.

The road that never ends Qukës-Qafë Plloë. Can you imagine that on the way they change the project just so that the tears don't match each other.

And there are, in the most criminal way, two major inconsistencies.

That it will be extended and the longer it is extended the more it is stolen.

This is the budget.