Transport & Motoring news & information for Spain

MADRID'S Atocha station shut until 10.30 this morning (Wednesday) due to a 'bomb scare' – but the offending 'explosive device' turned out to be a passenger's belt buckle shaped like a hand...

SPEED limits on secondary roads will drop from 100 kilometres per hour to 90 from January as part of a battery of measures to cut crash deaths, which have been rising in number over the past four years.

Spanish traffic police are preparing to launch a new weapon in the war on drivers who use their mobile 'phones at the wheel.

KING Felipe VI caused a stir today (Wednesday) when he appeared out of the blue on the Madrid metro – a rare trip to mark the 100th anniversary of the underground train network in the capital.

MORE than half of Spain's drivers do not use their indicators when they overtake and two-thirds fail to do so when they return to the inside lane, says the motorways safety centre.

SEAT has urged Ibiza owners to take their cars to their nearest dealership for a check-up after having discovered a fault in the locking system.

DRIVERS in Madrid without traffic authority emissions stickers in a prominent place will be fined in six months' time, warns the city council.

A HYDROGEN battery-powered car has arrived in Spain for the first time – an SUV which can run for 666 kilometres before it needs charging, a process which takes just five minutes.

UBER and Cabify cars blocked Madrid's main business boulevard today in a counter-protest against taxi drivers trying to get them off the streets.

GREENPEACE 'crashed' a car into the wall of Madrid's Reina Sofía art museum yesterday (Thursday) to campaign for petrol and diesel to be scrapped in accordance with longer-term environmental guidelines.

A SINK-HOLE on one of Madrid's busiest streets and just above a metro line caused massive rush-hour traffic jams this morning (Friday).

TRAFFIC authorities in Spain are considering making speed-limiting technology obligatory in all newly-manufactured cars in a bid to reduce crash deaths on roads.