Transport & Motoring news & information for Spain

IN WEATHER terms, summer is far from over in Spain just yet, but the holiday season is drawing to a close and, with it, major trunk roads are expected to be chock-full with cars between now and about the middle of next...

ROAD traffic rules such as the meaning of signs and markings and use of lanes are similar in the majority of countries, but some minor elements differ as we cross borders and, in practice, a lot of native or resident...

IT IS not easy to stay anonymous when your car is clamped in a city-centre street and it just so happens to be a £150,000 (€172,500) Aston Martin Vantage – as Manchester United's David de Gea has just found out.

THIS year's bank holiday over the 'Feast of the Assumption' on August 15 is one of several that have been 'lost' due to falling on a weekend, but some regions will be moving it to the following...

BARCELONA'S El Prat airport is about to get bigger: Expansion plans costing €1.7 billion are afoot, turning it into a major long-haul international terminal with a high-speed rail connection.

ALONG with a spike in ice-cream sales, a fan breaking down becoming a domestic emergency and fantasies of teleporting oneself to the Arctic – just for 10 minutes, then going home again – summer in Spain is...

A NEW 'sleeper train' will link Spain with Switzerland in less than three years, making it the sixth overnight rail connection in the country, unless others launch between now and 2021.

ALTHOUGH not widespread as yet, travellers on one inter-provincial train link may have been surprised to see the track was not the usual dark gunmetal-grey colour, but bright white.

THE LOW-COST express rail service known as AVLO has finally launched in Spain, making its 'maiden voyage' on Wednesday – although its routes remain limited for the moment.

A PICTURE of a woman turning up for her Covid vaccine in the Huelva-province village of Lepe has gone viral due to her unusual mode of transport – or rather, a mode that was once very typical, but has not now been...

NATIONAL post office firm Correos has revealed that a number of motoring-related transactions can be carried out over the counter in any local branch, rather than having to travel to the nearest ministry of traffic...

VEHICLE inspection criteria is set to change again from this coming Tuesday (June 1) to update road safety requirements in line with ever-evolving new technology involved in car manufacturing.