Spanish highways are losing vehicle traffic since the crisis began. A
recent study says that in the first 10 months of 2012 the traffic decreased in
17.193 vehicles, but the worst new is that it´s a progressive fall. This index
was not known since 15 years ago.
There are many reasons for this decrease, as unemployment index, taxes
increase, additional cost of expropriations and presence of
secondary free roads.
In this situation 6
turnpikes are currently in insolvency proceedings and maybe some more will be
in the near future.
In 2007 the vehicle
fleet began to decrease after many years of increasing, up to now a 27% of the traffic
flow exactly. This means the situation in the Spanish turnpikes at the moment is
like in 1998.
What situation awaits us in the
future? We have to start thinking about sharing cars, using the public
transport or getting a bicycle.
Xabier Torrado
As we know, the
retirement age is in 65 years but we can retired earlier. Many of workers
between 61 and 63 years old are unemployed, so they are retiring. To think,
just two months ago that the new pension act can have access to a voluntary
retirement, early or forced to retire two years would enable you ahead of
schedule. The self-employed are the most affected ones and that blocking the
new law requires them to continue trading until 65 years old. 
