The reimbursement arrives – the cashback left on September 15 – for the inconvenience on the motorway caused by the construction sites. It is calculated by a digital system behind the free app that we will use to ask for it. But which routes does it apply to? Not at all. And don’t think you can locate them with the legendary Google Maps. Better, perhaps, a map. As old as the fragmentation of the network. The problem is not so much that there are 22 dealerships, but that each relates to users as it wishes, starting with the transparency of traffic information. The cashback affair confirms this: Autostrade per l’Italia (Aspi) launches it, which manages half of the network, but not even its subsidiaries have queued.
So there were animated discussions within Aiscat, the association of managers that is losing the pieces due to the disagreements with the dominant line of the Benetton company. After the Gavio group, released in December 2018 in controversy with Giovanni Castellucci – then head of Atlantia and Aspi – on 7 September Carlo Toto also left, with his Strada dei parks (Rome-Abruzzo).
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Among the main reasons for the tear, the dissent for the initiative proposed by the CEO of Aspi, Roberto Tomasi, without agreeing it with the other toll gentlemen. Many of them – says a source – consider the proposal difficult to enforce and a source of enormous litigation, with a potentially devastating negative impact on revenues.
According to critics, the cashback would be an opportunistic move by Tomasi, to please the government and hope for confirmation when in 2022 control will pass to the new public partner, Cdp.
A confirmation comes from Cesare Ramadori, president of Strada dei Parchi: in motivating the exit from Aiscat in front of the other associates, he also spoke about the cashback affair, stating that “as admitted by Tomasi, he was part of that negotiation but all other associates learned of it later risking to pay the consequences ».