The M-45 is a highway bypass built in the Community of Madrid of regional importance. It begins at Exit 28-B of the M-40 highway, in Carabanchel, and ends at Coslada, where it joins with the M-50 . The highway connects two national highways , the A-2 and A-5 .

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Autopista M-45
Autopista de Circunvalación
Route information
Maintained by Commonwealth of Madrid
Length37 km (23 mi)
Major junctions
West end M-40 near Carabanchel - Leganés
East end A-2 / M-50 near San Fernando de Henares
Location
CountrySpain
Autonomous
community
Madrid
Highway system
M-45 seen from the bridge of M-301

The M-45 was considered the best highway in Madrid in terms of safety and fluidity from a survey conducted in 2003 by the Ministry of Public Works, Town Planning and Transport of the Community of Madrid. It was also the first road to use the financing system known as "shadow toll", giving rise to the completion of legal studies on this figure. The June 7, 2012, the Regional President Esperanza Aguirre announced before the end of 2012 this highway would become direct toll due to high maintenance costs as well as due to economic problems of the regional government. The cost to the Madrid government is 8 cents per kilometer and car, and 2.64 euros for each vehicle passing through all the way.

Planning and construction

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For the purpose of construction, the highway was divided into three sections totaling 37 kilometers, 2 each way to clinching Joint Venture Company different. The award was made by negotiated and the construction was funded by the so-called shadow toll procedure.

It opened on March 14 of 2002, 2 soon circulated around her half of 72,000 vehicles, easing the Autopista de Circunvalación M-40M-40 and M-50 at 40,000 cars. 6 In 2011 recorded an average daily traffic of 96,913 vehicles a day in its section more busy, between Leganés and Getafe. 7

The use of shadow toll as a means of funding has been controversial. The group of United Left in the Assembly of Madrid argues that is a significant increase for public spending. According to a report carried out, the cost in 25 years of the work of the highway would amount to 1,838 million euros , while direct execution had not exceeded 600 million. The responsible Ministry, ruled by the Popular Party, defended the system and said that the own Ministry of Public Works planned to use it.

Average Daily Traffic (ADT)

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The detail of the average daily traffic in 2011, according to "Traffic Management Study on the roads of the Community of Madrid" published by the Community of Madrid, is as follows:

Km Mi Average Daily Traffic % Heavy vehicles Location of Measurement
3.500 2.175 62,751 9.62 Between M-40 and the link & Leganés
6.520 4.051 96,913 10.84 Between Leganés & Getafe/Villaverde
8.450 5.251 89,916 11.40 Between Getafe/Villaverde & A-4
10.230 6.357 63,270 11.11 Between A-4 & M-301
12.980 8.065 59,124 13.39 Between M-301 & PAU Vallecas
17.830 11.079 59,197 14.36 Between PAU Vallecas & A-3
19.770 12.285 55,748 14.18 Between A-3 & M-203
25.750 16.000 54,418 10.21 Between M-203 & M-206
29.150 18.113 87,260 19.49 Between M-206 & San Fernando-Torrejón
32.250 20.039 90,081 19.98 Between San Fernando-Torrejón & A-2

Concessions

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The award is divided into three sections. The remuneration to the concession is made by the shadow toll method.

Stretch End of Grant Concessions Shareholders Percentage
Section I 2012 Concesiones de Madrid, S.A. Globalvia 100%
Section II 2019 Autopista Trados-45, S.A. Iberpistas 50%
Finavías 50%
Section III 2019 Euroglosa 45 Concesionaria de la Comunidad de Madrid, S.A. OHL 100%

Exits

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Elemento Nombre de salida (sentido horario)/Ver de arriba-abajo Número de salida Nombre de salida (sentido antihorario)/Ver de abajo-arriba Carretera que enlaza Notas
   Autopista de Circunvalación M-40    Madrid Continúa por  Autopista de Circunvalación M-40  Dirección Badajoz  Autopista de Circunvalación M-40  Carabanchel
Leganés  Vía Lusitana   avenida de Carabanchel Alto  Toledo - Badajoz    2  Toledo - Badajoz - Leganés    R-5   M-425  Carabanchel
 Vía Lusitana     2A  Mostoles - Toledo - Badajoz  M-425     R-5  Salida continua tras el final del carril de deceleración. Carabanchel
Leganés    2B  Leganés  M-425  Salida continua tras el final del carril de deceleración. Carabanchel
 avenida de Carabanchel Alto     2C   M-421  Salida continua tras el final del carril de deceleración. Carabanchel
Toledo - Leganés Centro Comercial    6  Centro Comercial Toledo - Getafe - Villaverde  A-42 motorway (Spain)   M-402  División de salidas en sentido antihorario muy cercas
   7  Centro Comercial - Getafe - Villaverde - Madrid  A-42 motorway (Spain) 
   9 A-B  Centro Comercial - Córdoba - Madrid - San Martín de la Vega -  Parque Warner   E-5 (Spain)   A-4   M-301 
Córdoba - Madrid - San Martín de la Vega -  Parque Warner     11   E-5 (Spain)   A-4   M-301 
   15   Autopista de Circunvalación M-40   M-50 (Spain)   R4 (Spain)    Córdoba  M-31 (Spain) 
   17  Madrid - Valencia - Ensanche de Vallecas  E-901   A-3 
 Autopista de Circunvalación M-40   M-50 (Spain)   R4 (Spain)    Córdoba    15   M-31 (Spain) 
   20  Vallecas - Mejorada del Campo - Vicálvaro  M-203 
Madrid - Valencia - Ensanche de Vallecas    17   E-901   A-3 
Vallecas - Mejorada del Campo - Vicálvaro    20   M-203 
Madrid Valencia    22  Madrid - Valencia  R-3 motorway (Spain)   
Coslada    25  Coslada
Mejorada del Campo - San Fernando de Henares    25  Mejorada del Campo - San Fernando de Henares  M-203   M-206  Salida peligrosa de las vias centrales al lateral, al no existir carril continuo.
   R-3 motorway (Spain)  Valencia  A-3   E-901  Valencia  A-4   A-42 motorway (Spain)       M-50 (Spain) 
   33  Madrid - Zaragoza  Aeropuerto   Feria de Madrid   E-90   A-2 
   32   Autopista de Circunvalación M-40   Feria de Madrid   Aeropuerto  - Zaragoza - San Fernando de Henares - Torrejón de Ardoz  M21 (Spain)   E-90   A-2   M-206  Salida por las calzadas centrales
  Continúa por M-50 (Spain)     M-50 (Spain)   M-50 (Spain) 

See also

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References

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  Media related to M-45 at Wikimedia Commons