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|country = Czech Republic
|state region = Jihomoravský kraj
|pop = 368.864
|plate = ?B? ????|motorways = [[D1 (CZ){{Dcz|D1]]1}}, [[D2 (CZ){{Dcz|D2]]2}}
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== Hitching in == === From [[Prague]] {{Dcz|1}}{{E|50}}{{E|65}} === If your driver is not going to the city but continue on this motorway, you can ask him to leave the motorway at the Vienna exit, and turn right onto a smaller road after 150 m. This road then leads under the large street ''Vídeňská'', where there is a tram stop. The driver can drive on to a roundabout and easily get back onto the D1. At the Bratislava exit there is a shopping centre Avion with a free bus to the city centre. The driver can easily get back onto the D1 too by driving about 2 km. If driver is going toward Vienna or Bratislava it's quite clear where to get off. === From [[User:KundrtVienna]] {{Dcz|Kundrt52}}{{E|461}} === If your driver is not going into Brno, ask him/her to drop you off at the "Futurum" shopping centre on the motorway. There you will find a free bus to central Brno. === From [[Bratislava]] {{Dcz|2}}{{E|65}} === If your driver is not going into Brno, you can jump off either at the "Olympia" or "Avion" shopping centre on the motorway. From both you will find a free bus to central Brno. === From [[Olomouc]], [[Kromeriz|Kroměříž]] got lifts from this place three times {{Dcz|1}} === If the driver continues to Prague jump off at OMV petrol station at the end of Brno (Starý Lískovec). There '''don't''' go though the appletree plantation - it is too complicated. Easier way is more hidden - go back next to the highway for about 300 m and then there is a path going under the motorway. Go left and you'll get to the town (and public transport) in ~5 minutes. If the driver continues to Bratislava jump off at IKEA. If the driver continues to Vienna jump of at Futurum Shopping centre or at a petrol station in Modřice. At both places there is a tram route. == Hitching out == === Northwest towards [[Jihlava]], once in [[Praha]] {{Dcz|1}}{{E|50}}{{E|65}} === ==== First option ==== This spot is quickly and easily accessible from various parts of Brno with hitchability from average to good. Find trolley-bus 25 minutes , 26 or 29 and get off at stop "Čtvrtě". From the bridge you can see big road to Prague. Go down and once stuck after 200 m there with is smaller petrol station. Next to it is great place to hitchhike just a few metres from pump machines where you can ask people. Unfortunately on this lane often parks some truck or two other hitchhikers so you can only hitchhike cars leaving station or ask. If you get stuck here, you can try your luck in another spot which is quite close to this one. Walk towards the highway and decided the bridge over your road, climb up the bridge and follow the road NW until you see traffic lights and you can stand right after the lights where you get people from both directions. However, it's really difficult for drivers to move stop here for you to another spotget in.It's much, much better to just go to second option, it's not that far away.
==== Second option ====
15 minutes walk from stop "Osová" - trams 6, 8 or trolley-buses 25, 29 (terminus). From tram stop go up to the bridge. From trolley-buses loop go over the bridge. There is bus stop, you can take bus 69 to stop "Čermákova" or continue this wide road 400 m to the end - crossroad with new houses behind. You can already see the motorway and petrol station. But turn right. After 350 m you are at the bus stop "Čermákova". Turn left (street Čermákova) and at the end you can see small tunnel under motorway. Just before tunnel on the left you can go up and after 300 m you are at OMV petrol station. In winter could be hard to get there.
This station is bigger than the one at first option, little bit harder to access, good hitchability.
==== Third option ===Small petrol station OMV on the motorway near Bosonohy - almost without cars. To Bosonohy, bus stop "Hoštická" you can get by bus 69 (from Masaryk''s University campus, or trams 6, 8 stop "Dunajská"). Then go little bit back to the main road and right. After 1,5 km you will see that station. Or from "Dunajská" you can go by bus 401 or 402 (you have to pay the driver; once an hour) to request stop "Tranzitní plynovod". Just few metres back and right is that petrol station. Nonsense to go here from Brno city. It was pure luck to get lift in 5 minutes. Getting there takes more time than average waiting time in 1st or 2nd spot. ==== Fourth option ==== Bigger petrol station Shell on the motorway near Popůvky. A bit further from Brno (3 km after the Third option) but almost all cars go to Prague or even further. Take bus 401 or 402 (↑↑) to the "Popůvky - Vintrovna" stop. Continue on the main road 850 m and there is the spot. You can also walk & hitchhike to this place from Bosnohy. === South towards [[Bratislava]] (SK), [[User:KundrtBudapest]] (H) {{Dcz|Kundrt2}}{{E|65}} === ==== First option ==== Take bus number 67, or the free "Avion bus" (it goes from 9am till 10pm every 20/30 minute) that starts on the bus stop "Úzká", and get off at the commercial zone “Avion”. There is a petrol station (where you can shower and even sleep) along the motorway which is going to [[Slovakia]] . It's a big commercial zone with big shops. One of them has free internet access, it's the electrical shop before Ikea. This isn't the greatest spot, but there just isn't any better, so don't expect any miracles. Asking around is probably crucial at this spot. Ideally get a trucker to take you at least to the next MOL gas station (about 16km out). ''I got lifts stuck at this spot for almost eight hours, from this place two times in early morning until about 3pm. There is surprisingly little traffic and a sign is worthless, you have to ask around 15 minutesor sit at the gas station. Speaking Russian or Czech will probably go a very long way as the mistrust is the biggest issue here. The second option is just as bad. - Rebew (27.07.2021)'' ==== Second Option ====This is probably a much better one than the first option. Take bus 40, 48, 59, 67 or the free "Avion bus" and get off at Hněvkovského. Walk 450m in the direction the bus was going (if you took the bus from the city center). After passing a crossroads with traffic lights, you will see a gas station. Now you can choose whether you approach people that stop at the gas station or stand at the beginning of the fairly long driveway to it. === South towards [[Vienna]] (A) {{Dcz|52}}{{E|461}} === ==== First option ====Take the free bus from behind Tesco, at the tram 2 stop ''Ořechovská'', to the shopping center (''obchodni centrum'') Futurum. Once you are at at the shopping center Futurum, you will find a Tesco gas station, but most of the people there are just staying in town. From here you can walk couple of kilometres or use tram 2 to second spot. Catch ride to a Shell gas station in Mikulov, from where its really easy to find a ride to Vienna. ==== Unicorn fuel station ==== Take a tram 2 to the stop "Modřice, Tyršova". And walk little bit back near the Unicorn fuel station. Cars are going very fast here, however, and don't have much room to stop, so you might try alternating between thumbing on the road and asking drivers who stop at the station.
==== Third option ====
==== Fourth option ====
=== South towards [[Bratislava]], [[Budapest]] {{Motorway Number Czech Republic|2}}{{E|65}} = Third option ====Take bus number 67, or the free "Avion bus" (it goes from 9am till 10pm every 20/30 minute) that starts on the bus stop "Uzka", and get off at the commercial zone “Avion”. There is a petrol station (where you can shower and even sleep) along the motorway which is going to [[Slovakia]]. It's a big commercial zone with big shops. One of them has free internet access, it's the electrical shop before Ikea.This isn't the great spot, but there just isn't any better, so don't expect any miracles. I would say that average waiting time is close to 2 hours and there's always a lot of local traffic near this mall.
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