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* Option 1: Take bus 92 from Termini, get off at Salaria ("Prati Fiscali/Salaria" no to be confused with the street named "Via Salaria" wich is quite a few stops before the actual "Salaria" stop). Its is right at the entrance of some kind of motorway (wich is not yet the highhay, the pay toll ("pedaggio") entering on highway A1 is still about 6 km away). You can walk along this two-lanes motorway and find a petrol station a few hundreds meters further up. There, ask for a ride to the highway. People could also be heading to [[Rieti]] (''check this name''), ask them if they can let you at the pay toll ("casello"), where there is a petrol station right before. [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] and [[User:Amylin|amylin]] waited 20 minutes for a ride (which is a lot less than the average waiting time in Italy). Reminder: this is '''not''' a good neighborhood with plenty of prostitutes. Hitching after 22:00 is not recommended, nor is girls hitching alone here. 25 Sept 2009: Men picking women up here are likely to ask for sex. Even at the next gas station. Don't be too eager to get in the car here, choose wisely!
* Option 2: [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Eni+Salaria+Est/@42.0045509,12.5272698,428m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x132f6196f9928ebb:0xb90f770693656e38!2sRome,+Metropolitan+City+of+Rome!3b1!8m2!3d41.9027835!4d12.4963655!3m4!1s0x132f660a0d488fbb:0x2dbde5837b566932!8m2!3d42.004548!4d12.5288935?hl=en This] is a petrol station on the motorway A1 towards Firenze. To get there, take the metro (costs 1.5 euro) to "Tiburtina", and from there a regional train to "Settebagni". It takes 20 minutes, leaves every 15 minutes on weekdays and costs 1 Euro. Then you should have a look at Google You can follow [https://goo.gl/maps /RSDE7BRwM4x this route] to find the way to the bridge footbridge over the motorway which leads you to the petrol station, - the road is called Via dell' Inviolatella Salaria. You shouldn't walk more than about 15 20-25 minutesfrom the station. Until Firenze, there are around 5 more petrol stations to change cars, so it goes quite well. The last one is 5 km before Firenze. As of November 2019 Via dell'Inviolatella Salaria remains blocked by a construction site at the hairpin turn of Via della Maremma, around halfway there. Because of the hill's slope on the other side and the breadth of the construction site you should not turn there onto Via della Maremma, but rather skirt the fencing of the construction site to its left (facing it as you approach). Past a thicket the fencing gives way and you can continue on Via dell'Inviolatella Salaria to the footbridge. On the other side of the footbridge there is a clear path to the highway, where the fence has been smashed down for easy jumping. From there you can walk along the highway or embankment to the station. Also as of November 2019, the restaurant at this station is closed for renovations of some kind. The gas station remains open, and there are still bathrooms and a coffee machine, but in the experience of [user:movethathoof|Movethathoof] many people pull in, see the restaurant is closed, and zoom right out again. '''Problem''': If you don't find the way, or if the way is blocked (e.g. in March 2014, by a massive building site), it is really really hard to get to the spot. There are swamps, loads of fences, private property, tremendously overgrown ramps and murderous blackberry bushes. Local people don't seem to know anything about the little footbridge, so you need to be quite determined. '''''Update July 2016''''': The road has been signposted as 'Via della Maremma', but the original road Via dell' Inviolatella Salaria continues to the north from the hairpin turn halfway up Via della Maremma. Dont follow the hairpin turn around to the south, but follow the way here around the construction site fence in the field to the left and continue on Via dell' Inviolatella Salaria which is private property from here on. This is much easier than jumping the fence into the construction site at the end of Via della Maremma at the top of the hill. '''''Update September 2018''''': The construction site is still there, but I followed the instructions from the previous update and everything worked out. To make it explicit: [https://goo.gl/maps/RSDE7BRwM4x map] - from the pin walk along the highway to find a hole in blackberry bushes to jump over a fence. Rest should be easy.
Alternative: [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.010805,12.51824&num=1&t=h&sll=42.00736,12.52286&sspn=0.016583,0.032015&ie=UTF8&ll=42.009525,12.521281&spn=0.009008,0.01929&z=16 This] is petrol station which should at least bring you on the highway A1. (But probably it's worth looking for a totally other petrol station on A1 which is reachable by public transport; at the latter station a lot of people don't head onto the motorway, a lot head home)
There's a much more practical option if you want to head east. It's a gas station at the very beginning of A24 on the outbound side. GPS coordinates are: [https://www.google.com/maps?q=41.900767,12.549775 41.900767, 12.549775]
While the gas station described above has got traffic heading other directions already filtered out, this one serves people going multiple directions, but is way closer to the city center, easier to reach and still very effective. From Roma Termini, ride subway line B towards Rebibbia, and get off at Monti Tiburtini. From there, walk down the main road until you're just past the second overpass (exact coordinates here: 41.902511, 12.556836). From there, walk up the off-ramp trying to keep behind the guardrail. At some point you'll have to walk on the very road because of a fence surrounding a canal, but you can climb back over the guardrail after that. At the end of the off-ramp, you'll have to walk on the motorway again, but it's just a very short distance, and a part of it is ever sheltered by a concrete divider. The gas station is just a few meters down the road.
My friend and I (two boys) tried this in October 2017 and it was fine. The staff was very tolerant, they told us we were fine as long as we didn't stand under the covered part of the station, but there's plenty of other areas to ask people, like the parking lot and the self-service lot. We got a ride after 30 minutes, and it took us 4 rides to make it all the way to Teramo.
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