He Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility awarded for 895,097 euros, VAT included, the writing of the informative study to define the actions that must be carried out in the AP-6, AP-51 and AP-61 highways, passing through Madrid, Ávila and Segoviato adapt its functionalities to a scenario without tolls.
That is to say, adapting road infrastructure to the foreseeable increase in demand in the event of liberalization, according to the ministry led by Oscar Puente in a press release.
“The purpose of this study is to compile and analyze the data necessary to define, with the degree of detail required for an informative study, the necessary actions on the AP-6, AP-51 and AP-61 highways, and the rest of the highways, the surrounding national road network, to carry out these actions,” they indicate.
The scope of the study will expand over the 115 km of the route of the said toll highways in the provinces of Madrid, Ávila and Segovia.
The study must determine both the type of actions (remodeling of connections, establishment of new connections, expansion of service areas or installation of new ones, new winter road parking, pacification of crossings, etc.) and their characteristics (typology of connections, characteristic geometry, etc.), including the estimate of its budget and a programming proposal based on its priority.
The motorway concession contract ends on November 19, 2029 the AP-6, AP-51 and AP-61 toll roads which will, presumably, be managed directly by the ministry without charging the user a toll.
These three motorways thus join other liberalized motorways whose concession contracts expire in 2018: AP-1 Burgos – Armiñón; AP-4 Seville – Cadiz; AP-7 Alicante–Valencia–Tarragona; AP-7 Tarragona–Barcelona and AP-2 Zaragoza–Mediterranean.
