Talk:Highways in Spain

concession
"The first they are generally of concession and with toll, whereas the second they are gratuitous and they are maintained by Government." - I'll try to improve that but what does "of concession" mean ? -- Beardo 21:12, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

AP-9
There is a link "AP-9" that is about pistol. There is a link "AP-9 Sur de Caldas de Rei", too. Do they mean the same road?

Tatrgel 12:25, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

E10 and E20 on Ibiza
The satellite maps of Ibiza show road markings equal to the E10 and E20 of the International E-road network going through Ibiza Town. Can someone explain what these roads are? __meco 19:06, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Every Spanish Comunidad and province has it's own prefix (like B for Barcelona and C for Catalonia), so the E on Ibiza represents Eivissa. That's Catalan for Ibiza. So it has nothing to do with the E-numbers. Chriszwolle (talk) 11:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * OK. It puzzled me to see those signs which looked like the European E-numbers. __meco (talk) 12:02, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Network Length
The Spanish page of this article states that there are now 14.325 kilometers of autopistas and autovías, which seems plausible to me. Are there any sources to this, so we can incorporate it into the article? Chriszwolle (talk) 11:49, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Roads in Spain redirects here?
I think someone should make an independent article talking about the road system in Spain, not just motorways. Albertocsc (talk) 14:50, 6 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Done, by moving it up to Transport in Spain. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 13:09, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

History of motorways
Can someone please write a little about the history of this roads. Maybe there was some sort of national program ect... — Preceding unsigned comment added by RonRodex (talk • contribs) 00:12, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

About the Autobahn
The German autobahns articles mentions that the Autobahns are the fourth largest highway system in the world, behind the US, China, and Spain, with no mention of Canada... so what's up with that? Which is the fourth, Spain or Germany? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WolfgangAzureus (talk • contribs) 01:15, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

statistics
the source used for the highway-lengths is not consistent. in spain it adds autopistas and autovias together, yet for germany it omits limited-acces-4-lane bundesstrassen, which have the same background as autovias. they would never appear in german statistics for autobahns. as for canada, the numbers floating around are completely wrong. quebec and ontario have the most extensive networks of about 2000km each. next come bc and alberta. there simply are no 17000km of limited-access-highways in canada.Sundar1 (talk) 12:58, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * In Spain autopistas and autovias are added together to count motorways, because new autovias are build with an autopista standard, and because those new autovia are the major part of the autovia network. Spanish statistics include autovia and autopista in motorways counts using the European methodology. This seams to be accepted by Eurostat and the European commission. Those statistics are also acknowledged by some other documents such as a RAC one: Note for instance that while those statistics  states that The definition of road types varies from country to country; the data is therefore not comparable – “other roads” sometimes includes roads without a hard surface. no such issue is raised for European motorways.
 * For limited-acces-4-lane bundesstrassen, is there any available statistics on this topic?

Why different colours?
The article doesn't mention anything about why the different colours exist. Is it some sort of artefact, or is it to tell the difference between roads? Can someone add that in? Jordf32123 (talk) 06:24, 14 May 2023 (UTC)


 * There it goes the colour code in a new section. Ambil (talk) 10:23, 19 May 2023 (UTC)