After the fuel, the bills, the food, there are also the increases in motorway tolls.
From the end of June, Autostrade per l'Italia is preparing to trigger a 1.5% increase in tolls.
"We speak very little, we are discussing it at this stage with the ministry", explained the managing director Roberto Tomasi during an event in Florence.
The decision then explained Aspi in a note, is only in the preliminary phase and will be decided by the competent authorities after four years of blockade but it is foreseeable on the basis of the 'calm' rules provided by the Transport Regulation Authority.
If the retouching goes through, it would therefore be another additional commitment for the pockets of Italians, after the increase in energy, electricity and gas, and raw materials.
Voices that fall on many products and services, and that now, with the arrival of the summer holidays, also affect the motorway tariffs.
So much so that the consumers of Assoutenti have announced an appeal to the Lazio TAR.
However, the increase is defined as "laughable" by Tomasi himself, who recalled how Autostrade tariffs "remained blocked starting from 2018".
The increase, added the CEO of Aspi, "would be foreseen in Autostrade's economic and financial plan starting from the end of June-July of this year", therefore it would not be a change linked to expensive energy and materials.
"We come out with our heads not high, very high - said Tomasi - compared to the increases that all the other commodities have had in this period. It is a ridiculous increase, linked to the approval of the economic and financial plan".
The prices of energy and raw materials, which rose after the invasion of Russia in Ukraine, also weighs on the numerous construction sites that Autostrade per l'Italia has around the country.
For Tomasi, in fact, it is "a serious problem: in these first six months we have had an important increase in terms of material costs that vary from 20 to 30% on average, then there are price items with increases even higher than this".
Tomasi, however, specified that these additional expenditure items will not slow down the company's investment plan.
This, he said, "cannot be a mechanism by which we block our investments. On the contrary, we must continue to invest in the hope that there is also a speculative element in this phase that can somehow fall back,"
Investments that were at the center of the seminar 'The network of the future.
Aspi communicates with the area dedicated to the plan to upgrade and modernize the motorway network in Tuscany.
For the Tuscan territory, Autostrade per l'Italia has an investment plan, partly already completed, of almost 7 billion euros, of which approximately 6.5 for new works.
