These will be the most expensive roads in Spain and the price that will be paid with the implementation of tolls

The clear intention of the Government to establish a toll system on most Spanish highways, with the highways as the tip of the spear, will derive in 2024 with the end of the free nature that has always characterized Spanish infrastructures. A new business model, to end the enormous deficit that accumulates in the maintenance of these roads, which however still has details to be polished such as the price. But regardless of the cost that is established, everything presages that the A-66, A-4 and A-2 they will have the most expensive lanes.

Objective, end the almost 8 billion losses that supposes the conservation of the road network of the State. The implementation of the payment for circulating on national highways, which was part of the Government’s plan to qualify for the recovery funds of the European Commission and, despite the numerous criticisms received, with the firm idea of ​​establishing it in just over two years.

For this, the Executive is already studying different models, prices and characteristics, with a clear observation of the systems used in neighboring countries. To the point of noticing Austria or Portugal, where the tolls per vignette have been established quite successfully and with different formulas.

Despite the fact that at the beginning it was probed to charge up to 5 cents per kilometer, everything suggests that the cost will be 1 cent

In addition, once the model is chosen for which it will be charged on all highways, as well as in the future payment on other conventional roads is not ruled out, the Government’s plan is to establish a clear price. At first the possibility of charging between 3 and 5 cents was considered, in the last days everything indicates that the chosen cost will be 1 cent per kilometer as well as there would be rates for those who habitually use these routes to work, study or go to the doctor.

These are the prices of the most expensive highways

In this way, the five routes through which the most would be paid to circulate would be the A-66, A-4, A-2, A-6 and A-8. The five longest communication networks in the Spanish geography that link Gijón and Seville, Madrid and Seville, Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Madrid and A Coruña and Vizcaya and Lugo, respectively.

Priced at 6,92 euros for its entire route, if the rate of 1 cent / km is established, the 692 kilometers of the Via de la Plata they pass through up to seven provinces to unite five autonomies along the historical route devised by the Roman Empire.

Your full pass would be the most expensive but not the most popular. Fact that corresponds to the A-2 that registers the highest daily traffic transfer when joining Madrid, Guadalajara, Zaragoza, Lleida and Barcelona. Its price from the capital to the city would be 5,33 euros only surpassed by the aforementioned A-66 and A-4 (5,76 euros for its 576 km between Madrid and Seville with a key pass through Córdoba).

The north could be the region most affected by its smaller road network

Finally, the other two main roads that would generate more money would be the A-6 and A-8. Keys due to the smaller infrastructure network in the north, payment for these highways would be more inevitable than in other territories generating 5,18 euros between Madrid and A Coruña and 4,51 euros for joining the entire Cantabrian Sea between Bilbao and the province of Lugo.

All with a view that throughout the end of 2021 and the early 2022 have a clear plan to be established around 2024. The end of the gratuity of the Spanish highways that would come to solve a delicate situation of deficit in infrastructures and from the Government it is pointed out as a payment “fair with the distribution of the territory.”