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: ''"I hitched from Castellbisbal in August 2006. Instead of walking back along the tracks, I crossed the road and walked down the hill, by some allotments. The guy who worked at the station pointed to the two mountains and told me to go between them. I did, and it worked. I passed under a bridge via a dirt track (the road was being built as I passed) and just past that, on my right, was the service station. I hoped the fence, crossed the footbridge, and hitched south in the shadow of a big 'X' monument. After about an hour and a half, I got picked up by an off-duty police who'd been in Barcelona for a health check up. He gave me a ride all the way to Amposta, and sang Kylie Minogue songs. Good times."''
I feel this is not anymore possible, as since 2008 there is a new high speed train track ("AVE") running almost paralell to the motorway and has big safty fences on both sides. so you have to take the new bridge which has some pedestrian walk way as well.
PS I tried today the very central (and thus fast to reach) option 2) and waited only 5 min (ok i was accompanied by a girl and had a huge Montgat sign) to get a ride from Gran Via /Padilla street outside of Barcelona along the coast. The willing driver can stop on a marked area. see the google map foto link: http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=barcelona+bullfight&sll=51.344339,10.415039&sspn=13.601146,38.847656&ie=UTF8&cd=1&ll=41.400646,2.18356&spn=0,359.998814&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=41.400771,2.183726&panoid=3eh7O_7dn2E6LO-SVdRxKw&cbp=12,259.6,,0,12.74
in theory only cars on the right hand side lane of the 3 lanes going out of barcelona can use this "stop ober possiblity" marked on the street, but our driver crossed the still red traffic light to make it to the right even from the middle lane.
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