Spain’s Abertis is poised to enter Italy’s toll road system after securing exclusive rights for three months to buy a controlling stake in a 156-km section of the A4 toll road combined in a package with a smaller route, the 81-km A31. Abertis’s piece of the A4 is 156 km from Brescia to Padua, passing Vicenza. (The entire A4 runs 517 km across northern Italy connecting Trieste, on the Adriatic, and Turin in northwest Italy, passing Venice and Milan on the way.) The A31 runs north-south from Piovene, in northeast Italy, and intersects with the A4 at Vicenza.