The Autovía A-30 (also called ''Autovía de Murcia'') is a Spanish

autovía An ''autovía'' is one of two classes of major highway in the Spanish road system similar to a British motorway or an American freeway. It is akin to the autopista, the other major highway class, but has fewer features and is never a toll road ...

which starts in

Albacete Albacete (, also , ; ar, ﭐَلبَسِيط, Al-Basīṭ) is a city and municipality in the Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha, and capital of the province of Albacete. Lying in the south-ea ...

and ends in Cartagena, while also passing through

Murcia Murcia (, , ) is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country. It has a population of 460,349 inhabitants in 2021 (about one ...

. It replaced most of the eastern section of the former N-301 road.

History

The A-30 motorway is part of an axis that follows the itinerary of the old N-301 national road that connects Ocaña with Cartagena, although the A-30 refers only to the section between Albacete and Cartagena, the rest of sections of this national They have been renamed as another highway ( A-31 ), or the N-301 still remains as a highway, although from Ocaña to La Roda there is a toll highway called ( AP-36 ) that runs parallel to the national highway . The N-301 was the axis that linked Madrid with Albacete, Murcia and Cartagena. Returning to the A-30, the section between Albacete and Murcia, new layout, began to build in the late nineties, opening several sections until July 21, 2001 the last remaining section was opened. The section between Murcia and Cartagena, which opened in 1993, is for the most part a split of the old N-301. What's more, this section kept the name of N-301 until the change of name of roads in 2004.

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