List Of Autopistas And Autovías In Spain
The Spanish motorway (highway) network is the third largest in the world, by length. , there are of High Capacity Roads () in the country. There are two main types of such roads, autopistas and autovías, which differed in the strictness of the standards they are held to. History Between 1990 and 2012 Spain had one of the highest rates of motorway growth in Europe. The first motorways named ''autopista'' were financed using sovereign debt. 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. Between 1987 and 1990, the operations at four new motorways were transferred to private companies, three by the Catalan region and one by the national government. Building of new sections of ''autovia'' was increased before the 1992 Olympic Games and the Sevilla World Fair. The 1984-1992 National Plan built around 3500 kilometers of new ''autovia'', to reach a network l ...
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