Autopista de Circunvalación M-40
Autopista M-40 | |
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Circunvalación de Madrid | |
E901, E903 | |
Length | 63.3 km (39.3 mi) |
Location | |
Country | Spain |
Highway system | |
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The M-40, in
Overview
The M-40 is the second highway belt of Madrid and was built between 1989 and 1996.[1] It has a total length of 63.3 km (39.3 mi), looping around Madrid and its suburb Pozuelo de Alarcón at a mean distance of 10.1 km (6.3 mi) to the Puerta del Sol. The actual distance is much closer in the southern and eastern spans, which have been engulfed by the city in some points; than in the west, where the Casa de Campo and the projection towards Pozuelo brings it further from Madrid itself.
Furthermore, it is the only one of the several ring roads serving Madrid that runs as a full-fledged motorway for all its length: a span about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) long at the northern arc of the inner
Somewhat counterintuitively to foreigners and natives alike, the M in the road name does not indicate a hypothetical ownership of the road by the
References
Notes
- ^ Only the outermost districts of Barajas, Vicálvaro, Villa de Vallecas and Villaverde lay outside the M-40.
External links
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