Legal definition
Road specifically designed, built and signposted for the exclusive use of automobiles. Adjoining properties have no access, it has no at-grade crossings with other routes, and each direction has a separate carriageway except at particular points or temporarily.
RDL 6/2015, Annex I, point 66 (translation)Definition
A motorway (autopista) is a road signposted for the exclusive use of automobiles, with separate carriageways for each direction, no at-grade crossings and no access from adjoining properties. These are the characteristics of the Spanish legal definition.
Key facts
- Reserved for automobiles.
- No access from adjoining properties.
- No at-grade crossings.
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- A taxi driver travels on a motorway without a medical-exemption certificate. Must they wear their seatbelt?
- When driving a car normally on a motorway, may you use an opening in the central reservation to reverse your direction of travel?
- A car travels on a motorway with no justified reason to reduce speed. Below which general threshold is speed considered abnormally low?