>your country
>is it normal for city mayors to spend 3 millions removing a stone floor and putting concrete in its place
Spain
YES
Your country
Justin Rogers
David Collins
Sounds like Russia.
Camden Martinez
sounds like turkey.
Wyatt Phillips
sounds like argentina
Kevin Lewis
Big Concrete will pay for this
Daniel Bell
we are the russia of spain
we are the turkey of europe
David Thompson
Why? That doesn't sound like a good use of taxpayer money to me, but what do I know.
Brandon Reyes
elections this year
>spend entire term doing nothing
>election year comes and you have to look productive
>meanwhile there are potholes in hundreds of roads in the city
Mason Turner
Here we would just throw it on top of the stone
Parker Edwards
This is photoshopped right?
Elijah Collins
duuuud topkek that is definitely turkey. i thought europe would be more different and productive.
Isaac Walker
Jesus, Hispânia is fucked
Chase Wright
This.
Camden Martin
What the actual fuck
Zachary Phillips
Based Brazilians leaving layers of work for future archealogists
Lincoln Hernandez
do you recommed something to visit around Estrada?
Levi Morgan
Yes, Portugal
Thomas Lopez
around road? what road?
Logan Clark
here they would probably use that money to change the street lamps.
Brandon Edwards
a ver ho
Mason Turner
Akdeniz ülkeleri hep aynı amk,tek adam gibi ülkeler kuzey avrupada.
Anthony Lee
Russia
Thomas Sanders
Henry Ramirez
your mayor is a soiboi
Sebastian Price
That's a normal thing here, although the newest mayor has gone full autist with building roads and there are no elections coming up, so I don't even know anymore.
Gavin Martinez
*Cacique
James Adams
I wish my mayors did the same, either make those areas pedestrians-only or pave them with concrete. A stone "pavement" where buses and cars are allowed to transit is going to need constant heavy maintaining work and fuck that noise
Tyler Perez
Okay this is epic. Is this was done by the city or some angry Ivan who was driving through the hole every day?
Elijah Rodriguez
it was already pedestrian, and its gonna stay pedestrian
Henry White
Same, you can see patched of cobblestone underneath worn out concrete in my town. Nordic countries are not first world, believe it or not
Nathan Bell
They used to do that here too back in the 90s, but all cobblestone streets were replaced since 2010. To be honest cobblestone streets are only ok if they're in a no-car zone. That shit ruins the suspension.
Ryder Garcia
No idea. Looks like corruption:
1. Broken road
2. Let's spend money on """repairing"""!
3. Broken road
4. ...
Aaron Moore
This is common, well laid out cobblestone is good as a substrate for the road, in Kraków for example they renovating street like that but they are going to scrap the cooblestone so they can use it somewhere else as pavement.
Kevin Robinson
How retarded are bureaucrats in your country?
Oliver Jenkins
nah
look up "feismo galego" for more
Jace Ward
That depends. Is that concrete floor considered a work of art? If so, then yes.
Mason Williams
youtube.com
>i ask myself the question who are the Mafia in Spain and basically it has to be in the business and political system that's where mafia is here in Spain
this Australian knows it
fixed
Dominic Young
politicians and it's business get richer while the average person in this country gets poorer and poorer every year.
Anthony Johnson
YESSSSSS
834 242 Euro for ''nano water'' to wash buses .
Kevin Ward
hey at least the bus looks super clean
Nathaniel White
cobblestone is good base to lay over asphalt
Ian Cooper
This year the city of Vienna donated 450.000€ to the Life Ball. However, there was no such event this year. It's unknown where the money is and the mayor refuses to comment.
They also paid 95.000 to a magician to protect a hospital with a magic energy circle (no, I'm 100% serious).
Angel Lee
>However, there was no such event this year. It's unknown where the money is and the mayor refuses to comment.
Sounds like Russia
Nicholas Clark
:) AND that's before the Nano-water got ordered!
Stupid anti-corruption agency put the responsible guy in jail .
How Anti-scientific
Best Latvian invention and the guy goes to jail for it
No Nano-water anymore
Austin Smith
Things like that happening in west actually make me feel a little bit better because this sounds like something straight from Poland.
Justin Foster
Yes?
I mean weather here is harsh. roads are replaced yearly
John Gomez
1.3 million euro on plastic tubes that supposedly can protect the shore.
Angel Perry
Almost all of our roads are tarmac
If we still had stone roads, our towns would be infinitely more attractive. It really does make a huge difference to the aesthetics of a place
Joshua Allen
based
Kevin Mitchell
This bench for almost 1 million kr
>bench: 400 €
>projector: 14'700 €
>consultants: 113'300 €
Juan Rodriguez
Dog bless EU funds
Sebastian Lopez
it was not a road it was a plaza, the town square of sorts, only for pedestrians
Liam Martinez
Sounds like Russia
Mason Sanchez
We don't really have plazas like continental Europe, our towns/cities tend to be oriented around a church and then built outwards
It's a shame people are so keen to destroy their heritage these days :(
Zachary Powell
I'm not sure what it is but it looks impressive.
Kevin Gonzalez
One guy got 40 000zł of eu gibs to build sand castles.
Asher Sanders
Reykjavík spent a million Kr(Crowns) to add these pieces of straw to this barrack.
Logan Martinez
jeez look at this thread. i want eu gibs too. imagine what we can spend that money on.
Austin Wright
its not even nice wtf!
Eli Martinez
>36 Internet portals, which received EU funding of PLN 15 million under the Innovative Economy project, ceased to exist. These were extremely "innovative" portals, including a portal with horoscopes for dogs for 467 thousand PLN, cat facebook for 672 thousand PLN, a portal for sexual minorities or Striptiz for 485 thousand PLN, which allows you to undress a model.
Blake Wood
Galicians are known for their ugly sense of aesthetics
Adam Taylor
And this cinema was funded 50% from eu gibs in some shithole town, but it was to popular and had to be closed becasue of eu rules, it had limit how much money it could make.
Hudson Roberts
>which allows you to undress a model
well that was a good idea. not a single euro wasted.
Jace James
it's not ugly
doesn't looks safe to me tho...
Connor Foster
I keked really hard. thanks.
Carter Sanders
I would crush it
Christian Sanders
Well, praza de Praterías started this trend
Michael Cook
>it had limit how much money it could make
the fuck? why no lower the prices anyway?
Gabriel Reyes
I think it also was against the rules of eu gibs, I think now it is open again but with limited showings.
>The roofed island, moored in the riverbed at a distance of about 20 m from the shore, costed 1.5 million PLN. It was supposed to be a new hit on the cultural map of the city, today the inhabitants prefer to avoid it. Due to the fact that the stage floats on the river, garbage that flows down with the current of the Vistula river stops there. When it rains during the concert, the water level in the river rises rapidly and the authorities are afraid that the stage will flow away together with the artists performing on it. - We let practically only amateur bands into the stage," says the person responsible for managing the investment. If the city does not organise at least eight events a year, the EU construction grant will be lost.
Matthew Taylor
Wtf Áustria is latin
Zachary Green
It looks weird and that is why it makes you feel unease. It is just poorly aesthetic impression
Robert Diaz
paint it black for the true nīþingspadda experience
Lincoln Barnes
>The complex of swimming pools, powered by thermal water and recreational facilities, dream of Lidzbark County. In 2012 the construction of Warmia Thermal Baths started. It is one of the largest EU investments in Warmia and Mazury, because Brussels added 64.4 million PLN to the project, the value of which was estimated at 93.6 million PLN.
It was the first time that the thermal baths became famous - and it was immediately on an international scale - when the German daily "Der Spiegel" placed the project on its list of Euroabsurdas. Why? After drilling, it turned out that the geothermal waters in Lidzbark Warmiński are... too cold.
Their temperature exceeds only 20 degrees Celsius. Local governments, however, put the number of jobs that the investment will generate above its economic rationality and decided that the water will be heated.
The problems with the investment did not end there. Along the way, the main contractor went bankrupt, which significantly delayed the work and finally the construction of the complex of swimming pools, powered by thermal water, dragged on for a long time. The facility was opened with a delay of more than a year.
Isaiah Turner
>the authorities are afraid that the stage will flow away together with the artists performing on it
my sides
Connor Russell
holy shit, that sounds spanish as fuck, the Habsburger link is stronk
Angel Barnes
>thermal water
>Their temperature exceeds only 20 degrees Celsius
keek
Evan Hughes
>Sometimes, local governments throw themselves into crazy projects on their own without EU funds. Last year, as part of the civic budget, Opole opened its first urban beach. The plan was extremely attractive. The place for recreation and rest near the Oder River has gained the approval of the residents. However, its implementation left much to be desired. The 400-square-metre beach quickly became a big litter box. The cost of the investment was 150 thousand zlotys, which is three times more than the cost of the application under the civil budget. Questions about the legitimacy of such spending of public money are accompanied by dissatisfaction with keeping it clean.
Sorry for formating and translation but I am just dropping the text into deepl and modify it slightly.
Charles Baker
811.24 million € bridge that is used the least .
In 2013 the students of Stockholm School of Economics in Riga calculated that the same bridge could've been built for a budget two times smaller
Wyatt Jackson
>Where's my poop?
>Another example is a specific application launched as part of an EU project by the Municipal Water and Sewerage Company in Jaworzno.
In 2012, an application "Where is my poop?" was developed, which allows the residents of Jaworzno to follow on their smartphones and PC the route of their poop from the toilet to the sewage treatment plant.
The waterworks in Jaworzno decided on such an innovation as part of the campaign required by the European Union to promote the expansion of the network in the city.
Justin Moore
El eterno Cacique gallego.
BASADO.
youtube.com
Matthew Perez
t. officially a non western-european country from now on
Oliver Martinez
Historically in the middle ages you paid tax on the area that touched the ground. So people would build the first floor as small as possible. Ergo, you end you with wonky houses.
Lincoln Sanders
wtf
Robert Brooks
BASSSEDDDD
>EU project
Sometimes I wounder ...how dumb they really are. I mean is this a trick?
Eastern Europe is full of projects like this.
It's not that hard for people to notice.
Tyler Barnes
I thought this kinda shit happens only in russia and here tbqh kek
Jackson Bell
intresting
in my city they paid money for an awful fish sculpture, but the guy who made the sculpture actually donated it so that money was just taken by someone
Brayden Fisher
Imagine how this app will work in India.
Jonathan Reed
how is it possible for a bridge like that to cost even a quarter of that, this bridge(pic) cost us ~161mil eur, 380 with all the overpasses and roads leading up to it
Kevin Johnson
We do the opposite sometimes.
Jordan Harris
likewise
Gabriel Robinson
en.wikipedia.org
Just shows you how bad things get here if Serbian brother is surprised about our coruption :)
Robert Garcia
>Another project for EU money that is at odds with common sense is Ekomarina in Węgorzewo.
The cost of its construction was over PLN 2.5 million, of which almost PLN 1.6 million came from the Warmia and Mazury Operational Programme.
With these funds, on the north-eastern bank of the Węgorzewo Canal, a passenger port with a Bosmanate of the port, an observation tower, a sanitary pavilion for sailors and tourists, a living room, showers, laundries with a drying room and a quay for... six vessels.
This means, after a quick calculation, that the cost of a berth for one boat cost over 400 thousand zlotys.
Logan Phillips
Not him, but there was a town center renovation (traffic lanes, traffic lights etc) in one of the towns here and when they announced the numbers and costs, after a bit of math it turned out one parking space costs 10000 euros.
Isaac Hughes
sounds like Latvian math to me :)
We had a street renovation and the historic cobblestones got ''lost'' ...and somehow some homes of deputies got a new driveway with suspiciously similar stones.
I mean IF they steal such irrelevant things ...just imagine how they steal with Latvian math
Dylan Green
good thread desu
Juan Campbell
>Another "sin of pride" of Polish local government officials. For 140 million zlotys it was decided to build a 15 thousandth stadium. 150 spectators, so many fans went to the matches of the second division Motor Lublin, which was to perform on the new facility. Local government officials claimed that the new stadium would attract new spectators. The authorities of Lublin also decided to financially support the local club, which was to help it in its promotion to a higher league. Instead of promotion, came the relegation and the Motor went to the third league. The stadium was finally completed in 2014. Currently, matches of the third league Motor attract an average of two thousand people, which is much more than before. For the European Union, however, this is still not enough, because if Lublin Arena is not visited by the end of the year by 361 thousand people, the city authorities will have to return 67 million EU subsidies.
At least it looks nice I guess
Jonathan Lewis
We had a similar problem where a ladder coated hundreds of thousands. It's just money laundering.
Jayden Walker
>A huge opera house was built in Bialystok for 220 million PLN. The audience can seat more than 1000 people, and the roof is covered with a garden with an area of 16 thousand m2. The initiators of the Philharmonic's construction emphasize that it has a unique character and is the only such place in this part of Europe. However, many people warned before the start of construction that this investment would be completely unprofitable and would significantly burden the budget of the not very wealthy Podlaskie Voivodeship. The cost of maintaining the Philharmonic can reach even 30 million zlotys per year, and although it is visited by many people, it still has financial problems. The premieres consumed so much money that it fell into huge debt, which had to be paid jointly by the city of Białystok and the Ministry of Culture.
Lincoln Torres
>33 000 € bench
Christopher Evans
>all this baby stuff
That‘s nothing, watch this...