Why do our roads stink?

Good grief! Someone just tipped me off to this scandal going on within the Georgia DOT. You can read the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/us/23georgia.html . It is mind-bottling the extent to which this is happening. Let's just say that the GADOT does not have the best reputation as far as being people-friendly. I guess it is because they would rather be "interacting" with each other instead of the public.