New Interactive Map Reveals Information on Road Repairs in Bulgaria

The caretaker Minister of Regional Development and Public Works, Nikolay Naydenov, presented to journalists a new interactive map, accessible at roads.mrrb.bg, which for the first time gives public access to detailed information on road repairs in Bulgaria. The goal is full transparency regarding how budget funds are spent in the Road Infrastructure Agency (API), the minister pointed out at a press conference.

Everything started a month ago, when I took a commitment to Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov to make the activities, contracts, and flows of money in the Road Infrastructure Agency transparent, the minister said.

The system allows citizens to track contracts for current repair and maintenance (TRP). Through the map, you can see: who is the contractor for a given section, what is the value of the contract, and what is the status of the repair activities. Citizens can check whether a given road is still under warranty, explained Eng. Yordan Terziev, political advisor to the minister. All information is structured and available for download, which allows analysts and citizens to perform independent control, he added, pointing out that this is the first step of a bigger idea - the creation of an electronic file of a road section.

At the time of the presentation of the map, the total value of the assignments for current repair and maintenance in the country amounts to 1.407 billion euros, Terziev clarified. This amount covers all active, planned, and already completed tasks under the existing framework contracts with road maintenance companies. The map shows the distribution of these funds by specific areas, roads, and individual sections.

The map is dynamic and uses the principle of linear referencing, explained Terziev. It is divided into several main information layers. Blue indicates sections for which an assignment (award) has been issued, but work on them is yet to begin, green indicates completed sections that have already been accepted by the state. When selecting a specific section, the user gets access to information about which company is performing the repair, the amount paid or planned for the specific section, when the repair started and when it should be completed, and the validity of the warranty period. Through the system, there is a link with the Public Procurement Register, said Terziev.