Transport & Motoring news & information for Spain

NATIONAL high-speed rail services are breaking into the north – the fast AVE train now runs from Madrid to the cathedral city of Burgos, via Valladolid.

CUSTOMERS using the car-sharing service Cabify can now pay using contactless without the driver needing to have a card machine, thanks to a new deal between the company and finance firm Divilo.

A BATTERY of measures to curb the cost of living crisis announced by Spain's government will include windfall taxes on energy companies, an extra levy on bank profits, additional cash benefits for students, and...

A HIGH-SPEED, low-cost train line now operating in Spain has put tickets on sale for the Madrid-Valencia route for just €9 each way.

ONCE you're settled in your seat, belted in and counting the minutes until that moment you can pop your tray down, go to the loo and switch the reading light on – with one eye always on the qui vive for the food...

A BATTERY of measures to soften the blow of price-led inflation has been announced following Spain's latest Council of Ministers, at a cost of around €9.1 billion.

EMPLOYEES at the Ford factory in the province of Valencia are celebrating as though all their birthdays and Christmases have come at once – the global motor company has chosen the plant to produce all its electrically...

CHANGES are afoot in driving licence renewal for the 65-plus age group in Spain, which could come into effect next year.

YOUNG adults may soon be permitted to drive small electrically-powered vehicles capable of top speeds of 90 kilometres per hour (56mph), currently the maximum allowed on non-motorway roads, from age 16, according to...

FINDING a parking space and paying the meter has just become easier for residents in and visitors to Spain's third-largest city – a new mobile phone application is now recognised by the city council.

A MAP of Barcelona's underground rail system with station names translated directly and literally into English has been 'revived' on Twitter – and instantly gone viral.

ONE of the Comunidad Valenciana's biggest employers and a key national transport system has been prevented from closure after the pandemic left it with unprecedented losses.