World Of Tourism

Traffic volumes on the Cartagena-Vera extension of the AP7 motorway seem to have recovered a little from the trough experienced last year, even although it is difficult to compare the figures directly because the figures given then and now relate to differrent, but overlapping, time-periods in the two years.In the first 5 months of 2010 the average traffic volume is given as having risen 9 per

(Please see UPDATE at end)Traffic volumes on the Cartagena-Vera extension of the AP7 motorway have fallen far short of expectations during its first two plus years of operation, largely attributed to the fact that for almost the whole of its length it is a toll road (98 of 114 Km length) and exacerbated by the recession which has accelerated the deterioration in usage levels in the last year.A

I wrote a post here a few weeks ago about my experiences travelling between Belgium and Spain (and back) in early-mid 2008 and early-mid 2007, with details of fuel, toll motorway, hotel and other sundry costs (food, etc). Since then I have noticed quite a number of viewings of that post from people in various countries who are planning journeys of their own and I thought it might be useful to