[ad_1]
A turbulent story, an epilogue with positive luck. The Asti-Cuneo highway, which currently falls after the Tanaro river, can be completed. The green light from Cipe, the economic planning committee employed by Palazzo Chigi, has come to update the financial plans related to the A33 Asti – Cuneo and A4 Turin – Milan motorway concessionaires, controlled by the Gavio family. The decision ends a stalemate dating back to 2014 and restores certainty about the completion of a long-awaited job according to new criteria that are more in the public interest, said Transport Minister Paola De Micheli.
The completion of the work must be done within the next 4 years. An expense of 350 million euros is expected. The schedule, attached to the new Conventional Law, foresees the immediate start of work for lot 2.6 (Roddi – Diga Enel) that stretches for 9.7 km, in addition to the adaptation of the Alba ring road and the interconnections with the local road network. He takes note of a note from MIT. The infrastructure guarantees the rationalization of the interconnection viability of the SP7 Verduno – Bra, the SP 662 Marene – Bra and the SS 231 Marene – Fossano – Bra. The work is connected to the large interregional communication networks (A6 Turin – Savona, A21 Turin – Piacenza). Conventional acts transpose the new tariff regime in accordance with the rules of the Transport Regulatory Authority based on the price limit principle with the application of tolls directly related to the costs actually incurred.
Asti Cuneo has had a very troubled history that dates back to the 1960s. but at the end of the eighties the first initiatives began. Two companies show interest: Satap, an important part of which is in the hands of the Gavio family, and Sitraci, a consortium created for the construction of the Mercantou tunnel. At that time, the general director of Anas, Morando Mancini, according to the Minister of Public Works Emilio De Rose, who by statute was president of the manager now controlled by Ferrovie dello Stato, established that they could only be called to the construction of new roads. companies that have already managed them paving the way for Satap that continues to this day. In 1990, Anas and Satap signed a contract with which the concessionaire obtains state authorization to build the highway: the agreement provides for public interventions for 35 billion. But immediately an obstacle arises: because Asti-Cuneo would have reduced the income of Turin-Savona.
A series of appeals and protests begins that go to the Council of State. Meanwhile, ten years are lost. In 2000, when the Giuliano Amato government signed a memorandum of understanding with which Gavio resigned from Asti-Cuneo, obtaining an extension from 2005 to 2017 of the concession for the Turin-Piacenza that he already managed. The task of building Asti-Cuneo at this time passes to Anas, who is in fact still a shareholder in the management company. In 2003 it announced its intention to announce a European tender for the search for private partners to establish a Spa that would finance around 65% of the cost of the works. The Salt-Itinera companies attributable to Gavio still emerge from the tender, as they have carried out some projects and banned some lots.
The last years are lost between disputes, requests for coverage of the concession in the A4 Turin-Milan to finance the works in the Asti-Cuneo. Now finally the square. Gavio agrees to carry out the work, without rate increases for four years, and renegotiates the expired concession, establishing the term with MIT in 2031. The expiration of the A4 remains firm in 2026, but the shareholder of the managing company obtains a significant acquisition value in the two arteries of the motorway, approximately 1,200 million euros. A value that could trigger a relocation if a new stakeholder does not emerge.
