Cycling in Madrid shared-use paths. The most important shared-use path is Madrid Río, a park located in the banks of the Manzanares River and opened in 2011. Car-shared lanes and streets (in Spanish: ciclocalle o ciclovía) are very frecuent in Madrid. They are marked with the drawing of a bicycle on the pavement, and they are speed limited to 30 km/h. In Madrid, there are many bike sidewalk paths (in Spanish: acera-bici). Some are located in O'Donnell Street or Serrano Street. Greenways (in Spanish: pista-bici) are independent cycle routes, for example the Royal Route GR-124. BiciMAD is a public service of bicycle-sharing. It
Madrid sector employs 18.1% of all employees. Madrid attracts about 8M tourists annually from other parts of Spain and from all over the world, exceeding even Barcelona. Spending by tourists in Madrid was estimated (2011) at €9,546.5M, or 7.7% of the city's GDP. The construction of transport infrastructure has been vital to maintain the economic position of Madrid. Travel to work and other local journeys use a high-capacity metropolitan road network and a well-used public transport system. In terms of longer-distance transport, Madrid is the central node of the system of "autovías" and of the high-speed rail network (AVE), which has