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TherThereThere's an ok spot just in the middle of the Fjøsangerveien. There are two traffic lights and two bus stops so people can stop quite easily. Another option is to take tram line 1 and get off at the stop Skjoldskiftet. Just past the roundabout is a bus-stop lay-by (in front of the Kiwi supermarket) from where it should be easier to hitch at least to the ferry (and then ask people in the ferry lounge for a lift going further).
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If you can get a lift to Nyborg, then you won. They have a huge roundabout. It is 12 km North from Bergen.
Hitchhiker Capy has found a lift at Bryggen by asking somebody stepping into a car if they were going North. They took him all the way to Nyborg (2020).
Some people working in Bergen seem to live up to 50km away from the city, so it might be a good idea to try to hitch out of the city in the afternoon when they are going home.
=== From Outside the City ===
==== North towards [[Ålesund]] {{E|39}} and east towards [[Oslo]] {{E|16}} ====
There are plenty of CouchSurfers in the northerly Sandviken suburb, so you might want to hitch from there in the morning. But unlike it may look like from the map, it's impossible to hitch a ride from the juncture between Sandviksveien and the many tunnels on Åsaneveien leading north. It's better to take a bus to '''Åsane Senter''' (a huge mall half an hour North of the city, which is very close to the juncture between the E39 (North) and the E16 (East), ''good dumpsters at ICA''). From Bryggen you can take bus number 50, 71, 80, 90, 270 and 285. Or you can use free IKEA bus going every full hour from Busstasjon(platform I) and Bryggen exactly there . Check the timetable, if it's too late you can blackride one of usual buses going the same way. <small>''checked in July 20152016''</small>. Close to the bus terminal there is a Statoil gas station where you can ask drivers, or just take a nice walk further to the next big roundabout, where you'll find two nice hh spots perfect both for hitching North and East. It's quite a walk, but considering the rain and the not excellent hitchability of Western Norway, reaching those two spots does pay off!
<small>Update: Since july 2015 spot for hitchhiking East after roundabout is no longer available ( because of crash barrier). You have to go along the road and you'll find a bus stop, which is still a good spot to catch someone to Voss or further.</small>
==== South towards [[Stavanger]] {{E|39}} ====
Hitching south of Bergen implies hopping from island to fjord to island and involves a minimum of two ferries (to Stavanger) that charge for additional passengers. As of august 2016September 2018, the first passage is 64 72 NOK for each extra passenger. The second passage is 43. It is the same price if you arrive on foot, so you don't need to be in a car to cross over.
There are a lot of trucks leaving Berging Bergen in this direction. This is very slow, but you have no expensses for the ferries and you do not have to worry so much about the route.
You may start from the big roundabout in the city centre just south of the train station (''more info needed'').
== Hitching In ==
== Public transportation ==
Within the municipality region of Bergen there is a one price policy (e.g. 40 NOK 29,- per for an adult single ticket in 2022) which will take you for any quite a distance within , also giving you access to some boats like the municipality.) A night bus ticket costs NOK 50,-boat to Knarvik.
*[https://www.skyss.no/ Skyss] regional public transport
* [http://eng.tide.no/Default.aspx?pageid=1035 Tide], the local public transportation company