Free return on Easter Monday for those traveling late at night? It's not for sure. The national strike of motorway workers begins on Monday at 22pm and ends on Tuesday 18 April at the same time "which will always culminate on Tuesday at 11.30am in a garrison in front of the Ministry of Transport". The news was reported by Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl, Uiltrasporti, Sla-Cisal and Ugl, explaining that "many motorway concessionaires do not apply the ministerial circular which requires the presence of a 24-hour employee at automated toll booths for reasons of safety and quality of service ”.
However, it is not certain that the passage of cars will be free. Tollway companies often close toll booths operated by operators, barring access during strikes. And so they divert traffic to paid ATMs which, given the mass of cars in circulation returning after Easter, could suffer slowdowns and queues.
“The motorways – underlines the union statement – are a public good and everyone has the right to use them in a safe way. They are given in concession to companies whose profits, thanks to tolls regularly increased every year, have never been affected by the economic crisis. So much resistance is surprising, which finds no economic justification in applying a ministerial circular”.
