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You can also get to an easily reachable gas petrol station on the highway getting north walking.You must go to Letňanská (e.g. bus 186 or 233 from Palmovka). Then going down from the bus, you can see the entrance of the highway straight ahead. Put yourself so you have the highway on your right, then cross the street (going north then), and then the parkings, and go behing the buildings, looking for a small bridge ("most" in czech), going above the highway. From there you will see the gas petrol station. There are not so many people stopping there, but they all are (almost) going in the good direction. Just ask if they are going north ("sever") or if they can just let you on the next gas petrol station ("příští pumpa"/"prschieschtee pumpa"), where there will be normally more cars.

You need to get to the first big gas petrol station OMV with McDonalds on D8(E55). From "metro Letňany" take bus (166, 233, 140, 210) to the stop "Obchodní centrum Čakovice". Then on the other side of the road take bus (202) and ride one stop to "Na Lukách" or you can walk there for 10 minutes. The bus stop "Na Lukách" is very close to D8(E55) highway and the gas petrol station you need. From that gas petrol station you can hitch-hike to Dresden directly or to the last gas petrol station OMV before Lovosice. The hitch-hiking position there is also good.

From metro Zlicin (line B, yellow), take bus nr 380 or 308 to Rudna. From the village it's about 5-10 min walking to the gas petrol station. Avoid going into Plzen or getting dropped off on the bypass. It's better to try to find a direct ride to [[Germany]] from the last gas petrol station before Plzen.

From metro Opatov (line C, red) follow noise to the highway. Walk along the road about 5 min, keep going over the crossroad and the bridge over the highway (see second map). Now you might see other hitchhikers on the sliproad. Be careful and stay on the slip road, not on the highway (sometimes police passes by). Average waiting time is less than 1 hour. From the bridge you can see the gas petrol station 'Újezd u Průhonic' - it's about 1.5 km by highway, but it isn't a good place.

[[Image:ujezdupruhonicprague.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Hitchhikers at Újezd u Průhonic gas petrol station. Regular local hitchers were about, as well as hitchers doing the race.]]

Use the gas petrol station, it is a good place, easier to reach and you'll get rides quickly. From metro Opatov (line C, red) climb the steps to the highway. Look on the bus stop timetables for the stop "K Sukovu" on route 324, 363 or 385 (you are going south, the buses should leave every 15 minutes, and you can use the same ticket that you got on the metro). Get to K Sukovu - you'll know you're there when you see the gas petrol station to your right. From K Sukovu the gas petrol station is a 150m walk over the motorway bridge.

[[user:tmoon|Tom]] shared this spot with about 20 other hitchhikers during a race in April 2007 (most started at the sliproad spot described above, but just got dumped at this gas petrol station). While his teammates fell asleep on the grass for 3 hours (!), he was able to chat with other hitchhikers and drivers, and get ride offers towards [[Brno]], [[Bratislava]], [[Budapest]], [[Vienna]] and [[Kraków]]. The average waiting time was 20-30 minutes, plus there were several truck drivers promising longer lifts after a few hours' rest.