Autopista de Circunvalación M-40

Autopista M-40
Circunvalación de Madrid

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Part of
Length:	63.3 km (39.3 mi)
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Autopistas and autovías in Spain

M-40 kilometer 46

The M-40, in Spanish transport, is a Madrid orbital motorway, similar to the M25 motorway in London, or the Boulevard Périphérique in Paris. It is the second-outermost of the Madrid orbital highways, the M-30 being the closest to the centre of Madrid.

Overview

It has a total length of 63.3 km (39.3 mi), looping around Madrid and its suburb Pozuelo de Alarcón at a mean distance of 10.1 km (6.3 mi) to the Puerta del Sol. The actual distance is much closer in the southern and eastern spans, which have been engulfed by the city in some points; than in the west, where the Casa de Campo and the projection towards Pozuelo brings it further from Madrid itself.

Furthermore, it is the only one of the several ring roads serving Madrid that runs as a full-fledged motorway for all its length: a span about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) long at the northern arc of the inner M-30 are not freeway-grade, having level crossings and traffic lights; while the outermost M-50 is not a full ring road due to the interruption caused by the Mount of El Pardo protected natural zone. With the "normal" M-40 traffic already being one of the heaviest in Spain, this provides for mighty jams in its northern span during peak hours. The Madrid regional government, which built the M-45 motorway external to the M-40 specifically to decongest the southern and eastern spans of the older beltway, has recently aired plans to address the northern jams by effectively "closing" the M-50 ring with a tunnel under the protected area.

Somewhat counterintuitively to foreigners and natives alike, the M in the road name does not indicate a hypothetical ownership of the road by the autonomous regional government of Madrid. Instead, both the M-40 and the M-50 are state-owned freeways, as shown by the white text on blue background of their signals, whereas Madrid regional motorways like the M-45 use black text on an orange background that identify them as pertaining to the "regional first order roads" category of the Spanish Traffic Code. The M-30, on the other hand, is managed by the Madrid City Council as an urban freeway.

External links

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Highways in Spain

Autovías (A) Autopistas (AP)

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Urban routes	A Coruña AC10 AC11 AC12 AC14 Alacant/Alicante AL70 AL77 AL79 Almería AL12 AL14 Avilés AI81 AI82 Badajoz BA11 BA20 Barcelona B10 B20 B21 B22 B23 B24 B30 B40 Burgos BU11 BU30 Cáceres CC11 CC21 CC23 Cádiz CA31 CA32 CA33 CA34 Cartagena CT31 CT32 CT33 CT34 Castelló/Castellón CS32 Córdoba CO31 CO32 Cuenca CU11 Elche/Elx EL20 EL28 Ferrol FE11 FE12 FE13 FE14 Gijón GJ10 GJ20 GJ81 Granada GR12 GR14 GR16 GR30 GR43 Huelva H30 H31 Ibiza IB20 Jaén JA12 JA14 León LE12 LE20 LE30 Lleida LL11 LL12 Logroño LO20 Lugo LU11 Madrid M11 M12 M13 M14 M21 M22 M23 M30 M31 M40 M45 M50 Málaga MA20 MA21 MA22 MA23 MA24 MA40 Mérida ME11 Murcia MU30 MU31 Oviedo O11 O12 O13 Ourense OU11 Palencia P11 Palma de Mallorca MA20 Pontevedra PO10 PO11 PO12 Puertollano PU11 Salamanca SA11 SA20 Santander S10 S20 S30 Santiago de Compostela SC11 SC12 SC20 Segovia SG20 Seville SE20 SE30 SE40 SE50 Soria SO20 Tarragona T11 Toledo TO20 TO21 TO22 TO23 Valladolid VA11 VA12 VA20 VA30 Valencia V11 V15 V21 V23 V30 V31 Vigo VG20 Zamora ZA11 ZA12 ZA13 ZA30 Zaragoza Z30 Z32 Z40

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