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Autostrada A31 (Italy)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ789112 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Autostrada A31 or Autostrada della Val d'Astico ("Val d'Astico motorway") is an autostrada (Italian for "motorway") 88.7 kilometres (55.1 mi) long in Italy located in the region of Veneto which connects the trunk road Strada statale 434 Transpolesana (near Badia Polesine) with the town of Piovene Rocchette.

The Autostrada A31 is interconnected with the Autostrada A4 in the city of Vicenza. There are plans for an extension north of the motorway, connecting with Autostrada A22 near Besenello. The operator of the road was Autostrada Brescia Verona Vicenza Padova of A4 Holding.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Autostrada A31 (Italy)” as controlled-access highway. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 92-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976. The account is most persuasive where Autostrada, Italy and controlled-access can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as controlled-access highway. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q789112. Authority coordinates are 45.355, 11.599. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Autostrada A31 (Italy)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.