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A '''rest area''' (or '''service area''' ('''RSA'''), '''service station''') is a public facility located next to a motorway at which drivers and passengers can rest, eat, or refuel without exiting on to secondary roads. It can be a great place for hitchhiking: you can ask for a ride when drivers re-fill or wander around the area, or you can stand by its exit (that leads to a motorway) and hitchhike there.

Rest areas often serve one direction of a motorway, but often rest areas in both directions of the motorway are situated opposite each other or within a short distance of each other. However, in some countries rest areas serve both sides of the motorway, as the drivers from one side are facilitated with connecting roads. Such rest areas are quite common in the [[United Kingdom]] and in [[Austria]] and are somewhat less suitable for hitchhiking as the rest areas which are only accessible from one side. There are even some situations, for example in [[Austria]], where rest areas are situated on the junction of two motorways, which are therefore used by traffic going into four directions. This in general is certainly not an advantage when looking for rides on these stations.

Facilities of the rest area may include park-like areas, fuel stations, toilets, and restaurants. Rest areas are common in the [[United States of America|United States]], [[Canada]], [[Australia]] and parts of [[Europe]] and [[Asia]].

=== Rest areas allowing cross-overs ===

~~Some~~ Although the traffic in both motorway directions remains separated, some rest areas , typically restaurants, serve both sides of a motorway. In those cases both sides of the motorway are connected by a pedestrian-only tunnel, a pedestrian-only bridge or a bridge restaurant, like the huge '''Dammer Berge''' bridge restaurant on the A1 in Germany, and on those it's obviously easy to cross the motorway should you need to do so. On others there are sometimes crossings for (official) vehicles that can also be used by pedestrians~~, but on~~ . On occasion you may have to walk a fair distanceto get to the other side of a motorway. Crossing the motorway using a bridge or tunnel is not always possible. In Germany passing to the opposite rest area is often, but not always, possible through so-called "service roads". Here's a list of links to crossable rest-areas per country:

* [[Crossable rest areas in Austria|Crossable Raststations in Austria]]

* [[Crossable rest areas in Belgium|Crossable Petrol stations and aires de service in Belgium]]

* [[Crossable rest areas in Croatia|Crossable Odmorištes in Croatia]]

* [[Crossable rest areas in the Czech Republic|Crossable Odpočívkas in the Czech Republic]]

* [[Crossable rest areas in Denmark|Crossable Serviceanlægs in Denmark]]

* [[Crossable rest areas in France|Crossable Aires de service in France]]

* [[Crossable rest areas in Germany|Crossable Raststättes in Germany]]

* [[Crossable rest areas in ~~Belgium~~Italy|Crossable ~~Petrol~~ Area Servizios in Italy]]* [[Crossable rest areas in Luxembourg|Crossable aires de service in Luxembourg]]* [[Crossable rest areas in the Netherlands|Crossable petrol stations ~~and air de Services~~ in ~~Belgium~~the Netherlands]]* [[Crossable rest areas in Poland|Crossable MOPs in Poland]]* [[Crossable rest areas in Slovakia|Crossable Počivališče's in Slovakia]]* [[Crossable rest areas in Slovenia|Crossable Odpočívadlo's in Slovenia]]* [[Crossable rest areas in Sweden|Crossable Rastplatser (with petrol station) in Sweden]]* [[Crossable rest areas in Switzerland|Crossable Raststättes in Switzerland]]

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