Autopista AP-9
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Autopista AP-9 | ||||
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Autoestrada do Atlántico | ||||
Route information | ||||
Part of E1 and E70 | ||||
Maintained by Audasa | ||||
Length | 219.6 km (136.5 mi) | |||
Existed | 1973–present | |||
History | Opened: 1973 Completed: 1992 | |||
Major junctions | ||||
From | Ferrol | |||
To | Tui | |||
Location | ||||
Country | Pontevedra | |||
Major cities | Ferrol, A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra, Vigo | |||
Highway system | ||||
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The AP-9 or Autoestrada do Atlántico is a toll
The AP-9 is 178 km (111 miles) in length. The first 16 km (10 miles), from A Coruña to the
The AP-9 has two spurs: the 36 km (22.5 mile) long AP-9F from Guísamo to
History
Construction of the motorway, originally known as the A-9, began in the mid-1970s with the section between Pontevedra and Vigo, including the Rande Bridge, and also the section between A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela. The latter opened in 1979, the former two years later.
Between 1988 and 1992, these two sections were gradually linked. In 1994, construction of the spur to Ferrol commenced.
In the late 1990s, the A-9 was extended from Vigo to what is now the junction with the Autoestrada AG-57. Then, in the early 2000s, it was extended from this point to Tui. The spur to Ferrol was completed in 2003, and in the same year the A-9 was redesignated the AP-9, as part of the general redesignation of Spanish autopistas and autovías.
Gallery
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Rande Bridge, Vigo
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Ponte da Ría, Pontevedra