Spending watchdog critical of progress on rail corridors

The Czech spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, has released a critical report on the progress of renovation and improvements of some of the country’s key rail corridors. The report points out that a series of projects approved in 2001 and 2002 were originally supposed to be completed by 2010 but now look they will not finished until 2021. It added that the costs of one kilometre of new track was sometime three times the expense of the cheapest and that standard cost evaluations were only introduced at the start of 2015. In the remains of that year that move already saved 23.2 billion crowns.

Author: Chris Johnstone