Toninelli: “Increases in motorway tolls only in the regions of the League”. The Venetian commissioner: “You authorized them as minister”

Answer and response between Senator 5S Danielo Toninelli and the councilor for infrastructure of the Veneto region, Elisa De Berti, on motorway tolls. The former minister attacked with a note: “This year the tolls will increase only” in the motorway networks “of the regions managed by the League, in particular in Lombardy and Veneto. The good government of the League led by Zaia will lead to an increase in the section Padua-Mestre by 1.20%, while, as regards the Lombard segment, the increases are 3.79% for BreBeMi (Brescia-Bergamo-Milan) and 5% for Piacenza-Brescia. Pedemontana Lombarda, a stretch on which the 5 Star Movement has always fought against it, the increases will be 0.80%. “. Then the senator’s lunge: “I would say that all the highways leading to the League are burdensome and whoever pays in the end is always the citizen. The League has built financial models in its own image and likeness, that is, completely bankrupt, with highways. underutilized compared to estimates and poorly managed. The League is not an apparently virtuous, but a losing management model “.

The reply comes from De Berti: “Perhaps the ex minister Toninelli forgets that he signed, as a member of the Conte I government, at the end of 2018, the decree to increase the toll tariffs of Cav entered into force on January 1 2019. He also seems to have forgotten that Cav is a public concessionaire company, where 50% percent is in the hands of Anas, which also expresses the CEO “. “Cav (Autovie Venete concessionaire) – recalls De Berti – is a unique case on the national scene, the only publicly managed concessionary company with very healthy balance sheets. If Cav’s management model is wrong, if in the Northern League motorways the increases they are because they are so at a loss’, as the former minister unexpectedly states, why then sign the decree a year ago with the increase in tolls? “. “Or maybe – concludes the Veneto commissioner – the then pentastellato owner of the Department of Infrastructures did not realize what he was signing? With this exit Senator Toninelli confirms once again, if there was any need, not to know not even what it talks about! “.