Transport & Motoring news & information for Madrid

METRO drivers plan to go on strike in Madrid for 24 hours to clash with the main LGB Pride celebrations in the capital in protest over being expected to work an extra hour on that day.

TODAY saw the first of four days of strikes on Madrid's metro as workers call for a much more extensive health-check programme after it was found that asbestos had been used for building the rail network.

NON-RESIDENT traffic will be banned from the whole of the centre of Madrid from November in a bid to drastically cut air pollution.

TRANSPORT headaches are likely in Madrid over Christmas with metro staff and airport security workers having announced strikes.

Prosegur staff, who provide security services at Madrid's Adolfo Suárez (Barajas) airport, voted on Wednesday to carry out the sporadic strike action planned for the period from December 22nd to January 8th - the...

Thousands of taxi drivers from all over Spain marched through the streets of Madrid this morning in protest against cut-price taxi services like Uber and Cabify (VTC).

A TAXI strike and demonstration is planned for Wednesday in Madrid as drivers continue to wage war on cut-price car-pooling companies like Über and Cabify.

TWO in 10 cars will not be able to be driven in Madrid in eight years' time thanks to a new and 'definitive' anti-air pollution plan.

METRO drivers in Madrid will start their five-day strike tomorrow (Wednesday) at 13.00 to coincide with the World Pride festival taking place in the capital.

MADRID metro will scrap paper tickets from July 7 and replace them with rechargeable plastic cards.

A FEMALE metro driver in Madrid has reported groups of drunken young men groping her and making tasteless chat-up lines and comments of a sexual nature when she is on the night shift.

LINE 8 on Madrid's metro – the only one which leads directly to the airport – has reopened a week earlier than planned after two-and-a-half months of maintenance and renovation works.