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[[A40 (GB)|A40]] has a number of entrances with heavy traffic, and the following 3 places have been successfully hitched from:
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== Hitchhiking around London ==
London has a ring-road, the [[M25(GB)|M25]]. You'll have to use it if you go from anywhere north of the Bristol-Oxford-London line to Dover resp. the continent, or the other way round. It's recommended to find a lift past London as it's somewhat hard to go find somebody going off the M25 into your direction from any of the service stations on the M25 - there only is three, one in the South, one in the East and one in the North-East.
[[South Mimms]] services is in Potters Bar in the north of London, on the M25 and right off the [[M1 (GB)|M1]]. For some reason, although it's a big services, you can get stuck for hours here. One option, as ever, is to ask people where they're headed..but there are so many directions possible that it could take a long time to even find someone headed your way. Standing at the exit of the services is unlikely to work, for whatever reason. Several reports of hours of waiting here mean that you probably need to try something else. If you're going towards the west, you can stand at the ridiculous entrance to the west slip road onto the M25. Although insane, you should be able to get a fast ride out. Have a big sign and someone should be able to at least take you further down the M25 to a better junction, or directly to where you're going..be it to the west or down to Suffolk.
Any information on going east?
* '''Directions'''
Get the Underground to London Bridge Station ''(Northern Line - Jubilee Line)'' and get the overland train to a station called Mottingham ''(direction Dartford)'' - this is very close to the entrance to the M20 to Dover - When you come out of the trainstation, head for Sidcup Road (corner of 'Sidcup Road' and 'Court Road', around 800 yards). At the traffic lights (little intersection) turn left, where you see a Shell petrol station. This leads towards Dover. This is the A-20A20, which eventually becomes the M-20M20.
'''Alternatively:''' To get to Mottingham railway station, take the Jubilee line to North Greenwich, and from there, the 161 bus to Mottingham.
* '''Directions''':
Get the Underground to London Bridge Station ''(Northern Line - Jubilee Line)'' and get the commuter train to a station called Mottingham ''(direction Dartford)''
(''Note that you can hitch along the [[M20 (GB)|M20]] and changing to the [[M2 (GB)|M2 ]] in [[Maidstone]]'')
==== A21 Motorway ====
[[M40 (GB)|M40]] is different from other motorways originating from London, as it starts quite close to M25 as a continuation of the dual-carriageway A40.
** '''M40 junction 1'''
Take a Piccadilly or Metropolitan Line to Uxbridge station (Zone 6). Exit the station onto High Street and turn right. Walk until you reach Harefield Road - turn left there, and then right at the next big roundabout. From there follow signs to M40 - you will eventually get to junction 1 slip road, and you can hitch-hike from there.
Confirm with the driver that he is going straight on M40, and does not turn onto M25 (London Orbital). Also beware that Junction 2 is not very easy to hitch-hike on (see [[M40 (GB)|M40]] article)
** '''Hanger Lane''' Underground station (Central Line, West Ruislip branch, zone 3)
