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Between 1990 and 2012 Spain had one of the highest rates of motorway growth in Europe. [3]The first motorways named autopista were financed using sovereign debt. [4]At the end of the 1980s, and before Olympic Games in 1992 in Barcelona, the autonomous Catalan government was interested in increasing the speed limit on new motorways. [4]
The E5 is a toll road from Irun to Eibar on the Autopista AP-8 and on the Autopista AP-1 from Eibar to Vitoria-Gasteiz and from Miranda de Ebro to Burgos. They are all open toll systems. [2] Although the Autopista AP-4 from Seville to Cádiz should be a toll road, it is not in practice. [3] The E5 covers a total distance of 1.221 km (759 mi) in ...
Many modern European roads were originally constructed as toll roads in order to bring in the costs of construction. Tolls on roads and bridges were very common in England in the 12th century and in the 15th century, schemes for improving particular roads or rivers were granted by acts of Parliament that authorised justices to levy rates for the repair of certain roads.
The AP-9 or Autoestrada do Atlántico is a toll motorway in Galicia, Spain. It starts in A Coruña and runs south past the cities of Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra and Vigo, before ending at the town of Tui, a few kilometres north of the Portuguese border at the Minho River. The AP-9 is 178 km (111 miles) in length.
AP-8 viaduct in Eibar. AP-8 in Zarauz.. The Autopista AP-8 is a toll autopista in the north of Spain, crossing the Basque Country from east to west. It is known as the Autopista del Cantábrico (Spanish for 'Motorway of the Cantabrian', Basque: Kantauriko autobidea) and connects the French border with Bilbao via San Sebastián, Zarautz, Eibar and Durango.
Until that date only the toll for the return trip was free, under the same conditions. Since February 1, 2009, if a return trip is made between the Gallur (19) and Zaragoza (23) links in a 24-hour period, light vehicles are free where the same route is taken for the outward and return journey and the same VIA-T device is used.
C-32 around Sitges. The C-32's southern section, also known as Autopista de Pau Casals (officially), named in honor of the famous cellist Pablo Casals, who is known as Pau Casals in Catalan, or non-officially Túnels del Garraf after the tunnels through the Garraf Massif, was previously named A-16 before the redenomination.
National Roads The Autopista AP-1 (also known in Spanish as Autopista del Norte ) is a Spanish autopista . It has two separate sections: the first from Burgos to Armiñón , and the second from Etxabarri Ibiña (a hamlet close to Vitoria-Gasteiz ) to Eibar .