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{{Infobox Czech Location
|map = <map lat="'50.0751" ' lng="'14.4347" ' zoom="10" view='39' height='350' widthview='4200'/>
|country = Czech Republic
|pop = 1.218.644
|plate = old: ?A?? ???? newold: A?A? ????
|motorways = [[D1 (CZ)|D1]], [[D5 (CZ)|D5]], [[D8 (CZ)|D8]], [[D11 (CZ)|D11]]
}}
'''Prague''' (''Praha'') is the capital of the [[Czech Republic]].
Writing a sign "PRAHA" clearly informs a driver that you are going to Prague
== Hitching out ==
==== Second option Option 2: K+R (Parking Area) Černý Most ====Maybe better Take metro line B (yellow) to the end station ''Černý most''. There is to use the K+R place near "Černý Most" metro (Park & Ride) to the right (east) of the station, lots of which is popular with hitchhikers and possibly a better choice than option 1. It's necessary to use this placea sign because the road splits in many directions, e.g. Use sign "HK " (Hradec Králové) or "PL " (if you want going to Náchod and Poland). It's necessary to use the sign, because cars there are going to many directions.Disadvantage The disadvantage of this option is that there are only cars traveling out of Prague - and not those going coming from Prague ring road. But However, there is no non-freeway solution how to pick up get a lift for those cars. My personal experience (dj-bobr) for east way (Hradec Králove, Poland) is that you can try to hitchhike at the beginning of D11 Highway (50.098664 N, 14.597708 E). It's a motorway, but police doesn't care, if you stand safe at the shoulder.
=== Northeast towards [[Mladá Boleslav]], [[Liberec]], [[Görlitz]] {{Dcz|10}}{{E|65}} ===
[[File:Stop_hk.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Dj-bobr at the beginning of D11 Highway.]]
==== Second option Option 1: Motorway service station on E65 ====Another option Take metro line B (yellow) to the last station ''Černý Most''. From there catch bus number 220 to the stop ''Do Čertous''. When you get off the bus, the petrol station is to use behind the big orange building with "H1" on it. ==== Option 2: K+R place near "(Parking) Černý Most" ====Take metro line B (yellow) to the end station ''Černý most''. There is the K+R (Park & Ride) to the same for going to Hradec Královéright (east), lots of the station. Lots of hitchhikers use this place. Use a sign "MB " (Mladá Boleslav), or "LB " (Liberec). It's necessary to use the a sign, because cars are there going to the road splits in many directions. Because Due to the construction of building sections of the Prague Ring (R1) sub-parts, long-distance traffic is lower each day; however, but this spot is still usable. For Hradec Králové and Poland direction === Northwest towards [[Ústí nad Labem]], use spot [[Teplice]], [[Dresden]], [[Berlin]] {{Dcz|8}}{{E|55}} === If you are passing through Dresden, take a look at the beginning [[Dresden]] hitchwiki page. From either of D11 highwaythe spots you can take rides to OMV petrol station before Lovosice or to the Agip petrol station after Ústí nad Labem. The hitchhiking positions there are also good. ==== Option 1: D8 ====
===West towards [[Plzeň]], [[Klatovy]], [[Nürnberg]], [[München]] {{Dcz|5}}{{E|50}}= Fourth option ====I go quite often Prague<->Pilsen and this is the best spot for me. Take metro B (yellow line) to "Hůrka", walk around Albert shop, upstairs and over the small bridge. Walk around the school maintaining the same direction. You will see a wall that hides the road we need to take, so go behind it. There is a bus stop and a big road. Go right to the crossroads, there go left. You will se signs "Plzeň". Go over the bridge and down to the left just around the corner and there is a great place. Quite long and lot of space to stop. Police stopped only once but after 2 minutes talking they went out and let me there.
=== Southeast towards [[Brno]], [[Bratislava]], [[Budapest]], [[Vienna]], [[Kraków]] {{Motorway Number Czech Republic|= Option 1}}{{E|50}}{{E|59}}{{E|65}} <br />+ south towards [[České Budějovice]], [[Linz]] {{National Road Number Czech Republic|3}}{{Motorway Number Czech Republic|3}}{{E|55}} : Rozvadovská spojka ===It's important to write sign!==== First option ====From metro Opatov (line C, red) follow noise to the motorway. Walk along the road about 5 minutes, keep going over the crossroad and the bridge over the motorway (see second map). Now you might see other hitchhikers on the slip-road. Alternatively, you can take bus number 177 from metro Opatov to next station called "U Dálnice". (It's request stop, so press the stop-button after the bus starts moving.) Be careful and stay on the slip road, not on the motorway (sometimes police passes by). Average waiting time is less than one hour. From the bridge you can see the petrol station 'Újezd u Průhonic' – it's about 1.5 km by motorway, but it isn't a good place.
==== Third option Option 2: Motorway service station Rudná ====
=== South Southeast towards [[PříbramBrno]], [[Ostrava]], [[PísekBratislava]], [[Vienna]], [[Kraków]] {{Dcz|1}}{{E|50}}{{E|59}}{{E|65}} <br />& South towards [[České Budějovice]] , [[Linz]] {{Dcz|3}}{{National Road Number Czech RepublicE|455}} ===
It's good to have a sign at this road and definitely for direction south. Every bigger petrol station on [[D1 (CZ)|D1]] is good for hitchhiking. ==== Option 1: Motorway service station on E65 ==== Take metro line C (red) to ''Chodov''. look for the big shopping centre and enter, keeping to the ground floor, locate the exit consisting of stairs and elevators (not to mention a lift that leads below); this exit leads to the bus stops. Head on outside and turn right, follow the path and cross to the SONY building. Now keeping on the same road walk for 20mins and you'll reach the SHELL petrol station. Alternatively, you can stay past the station exit at the end of the left lane, on the left side of the road.Easily reachable petrol station, not a lot of traffic though and is sometimes enforced by a employee in Shell uniform. Has cover for in bad-weather or snow conditions. In all honesty this station seems iffy.There isn't much traffic on both gas stations. Both are not advisable.You can try standing at the ramp to the motorway just outside Chodov Mall. First go inside, to floor 0. Walk to the easternmost part of the mall, there use the elevator to floor -2. In the parking house, walk east to the exit. There's the ramp. ==== Option 2: Motorway Junction Opatov==== Take metro line C (red) to "Opatov". Walk south ≈800m along Chilská past the crossroads and over the motorway bridge to the beginning of the entrance slip road. Instead of walking, you can take bus number 177 from metro "Opatov" to next (request) stop "U Dálnice" and then walk 100m east to the beginning of the slip road. Now you might see other hitchhikers on the slip-road.Be careful and stay on the slip road, not on the motorway (sometimes police passes by).<br /> ==== Option 3: 5.května at the beginning of expressway ==== The beginning of the motorway has been shifted a few hundred meters back into the city center, thus it is now illegal to use this spot. You can still use the petrol station, but indeed the amount of cars going in the direction of Brno is very small here. The sign showing the start of the expressway (and also 50km/h speed limit) is located 1.3km from the original location, on 5.května just before it passes over Vyskočilova, so legally it should be possible to hitch before it. At this spot there is a wide shoulder, lights, 50km/h speed limit. Take metro line C (red) to Budějovická. From exit on Budějovická street, turn left some metres and then turn right (northeast) on Vyskočilova. Walk northeast ≈350m until the exit slip road on the left just before the 5.května overpass. Cut across the grass embankment and walk up to 5.května itself and you will see the expressway sign. This spot looks good, but '''it needs to be tested.''' ==== Option 4: Motorway service station Újezd u Průhonic) ==== [[File:ujezdupruhonicprague.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Hitchhikers at Újezd u Průhonic petrol station. Regular local hitchhikers were around, as well as hitchhikers doing the race.]] Take metro line C (red) to ''Opatov''. Exit straight out of the station and take a lift following the winding red ramp up to street level/the road above. From Smíchovské nádraží the bus-stop next to the Replay shop, take the bus X122 to the final stop ''K Sukovu'' (buses leave every 15-30 minutes). As it is in the "P" zone, usual fares and SMS-tickets apply. Continue along the main street which will turn kind of right into Formanská and 20 m ahead it splits into left and right. Stay on the right hand/main road, cross the bridge over the highway and on the right there is a pathway going down to the McDonald's + gas station on the higway. The best jackpot a hitch hiker can hit. <br />This is the first motorway petrol station past Prague, the best hitchhiking spot but takes some time to get there. Also, you have to have a valid ticket for the bus trip! ==== Option 5: Beginning of main road 5.kvetna ==== Take metro line C (red) to ''Vyšehrad''. Head south using the sidewalk for about 300m. After the small bridge, continue left to the main road 5. kvetna. There are 3 lanes and one parking lane and usually some place to stop.<br/ >This spot quite near the city centre and cars are going slow, high traffic density, and nobody expects hitchhikers there but you can be lucky. ==== Option 6 ==== Take metro line C (red) to ''Roztyly'' and cross all the parking places to the motorway. Hard shoulder there is good and lit at night; however, it's not allowed to stay there and cars are already moving quite fast. ==== Option 7: Uhříněveská Highway Entrance and Gas Station in Průhonice ==== The below is more written in warning than recommendation, as a spot that is possible but hardly ideal. Where Uhříněveská crosses beneath the highway in Průhonice there is a gas station, Čerpací Stanice AGP in Googlemaps. [[User:movethathoof|Movethathoof]] went there looking for a ride while Option 4 above was closed, and found it //very// quiet: little traffic, and the entrance to the gas station is from lanes that are separate from the highway, for cars that are otherwise exiting there onto Uhříněveská. That said, there is a regular trickle of trucks that pass through, many heading to Nuremburg and Wrocław (though not Vienna, where they were). Still, by asking everyone who stopped they before long did find a ride with two Germans who were headed to Vienna. They also tried at the highway entrance there from Uhříněveská, which was useless. While the spot has good space to stop, and the traffic is not moving fast, 90 minutes there only taught them that the traffic is mostly local and the area must be //very// well off, to judge by the number of expensive sports cars there entering the highway and driving past. As well, if planning to be there once autumn really begins to bite, there is a large retaining wall right where you'll stand, casting a very deep shadow, making it feel much, much colder after some time waiting! To get there, the instructions are similar to option 4 above: take metro line C (red) to Opatov, exit to the street level bus stop directly above, and then instead take either the 363 or 385 buses (the bus driver may ask you to pay the 12 crown add-fare for where you're going). At least the bus Movethathoof took was nice and new, announcing (by voice and on a nice screen showing the coming stops, no less) the stop: you get off at the Průhonice roundabout (stop name Průhonice), and then walk five minutes up Uhříněveská (which is the street that makes the T-intersection at the round about, a left turn from the road and in the direction the bus travelled on from Opatov). The onramp will be right there on your right, and there is either a little path to the gas station, or stairs at the underpass (subway there were also truckers stopping simply to make purchases at the Lidl that is right there, the stairs being the more direct route between the two). === South towards [[Příbram]], [[Písek]], [[České Budějovice]] {{Dcz|4}} === Take metro line B(yellow) to ''Smíchovské nádraží''. Then take bus 129, 241, 243, 244, 314 , or 318 to the stop ''Malá Chuchle''. (It's a request stop so press the button). There you can easily hitchhike. Usually very short waiting on Friday afternoons when many people go out from Prague. === West towards [[Karlovy Vary]], [[Cheb]] {{Dcz|6}}{{E|48}} === ==== Option 1: Karlovarská street ==== Take tram 22 to ''Bílá Hora''. Walk 50 m west along Karlovarská street to past the red/white railings and there is a quite good place to hitch-hike. ==== Option 2: Motorway junction D6 Jeneč ==== Take a train from ''Prague Masarykovo'' to ''Jeneč'' (15 km out of Prague and very close to Prague Airport). Walk down the embankment onto Průmyslová ulice from the station. Walk north along Průmyslová ulice ≈350 m under the railway tracks to the motorway junction from which it is pretty easy to get to [[Karlovy Vary]]. ==== Option 3: Motorway service station D6 ==== Take metro line A (green) to ''Hradčanská''. Then take bus [http://www.tram-bus.cz/stredni-cechy/autobusy/linka-310610 310610] or [http://www.tram-bus.cz/stredni-cechy/autobusy/linka-310082 310082 (B82)] from bus-stop ''Praha-Hradčanská'' and get off at ''Velká Dobrá, u skoly''. Follow the direction of the bus and turn first left (Unhošťská street), than second right (Lesní street) and after 200 m you should see the highway and the petrol station on your right.<br/ >This option is good if you prefer petrol stations although it is quite far (30 km from Prague centre). === Northwest towards [[Kladno]], [[Chomutov]], [[Chemnitz]] {{Dcz|7}} ===Take metro line A (green) to ''Dejvická''. Then take bus 119 from bus-stop ''Dejvická'' to ''Dědina''. You can hitchhike at the bus-stop. You can also try another bus stop on Evropská road, e.g. ''Divoká Šárka'', but probably further out is better.
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