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== Hitchhiking out ==
You can go just on any road towards the main motorway with a [[Signs|sign]], saying for example [[M74 (GB)|M74]] and you might get a lift easily.
=== Direction [[Edinburgh]] ===
The highway M8 does run through the city of Glasgow and if one follows the way out of the Buchanan Bus Station , and then left on red light, past the university there one can see the road converging into the highway and could have been a good spot for hitch hiking but needs to be tried and tested.
=== Direction [[Stirling]] ===
Get a train to Stepps. Walk out of the station over the bridge and turn right (north west) along the A80, continue to the roundabout with the big grassy "pyramids" where the [[M80 (GB)|M80]] joins the '''A80'''. Carefully cross the roundabout and stand on the '''A80''' Stirling exit, a little way forward from the [[lay-by]] by the golf cub where cars (but not trucks) can pull in. It's not perfect, cars don't have much time to see you and stop, but it usually works for me.
If you are going further than Stirling, don't write Stirling on your sign. Hitching north from Stirling to Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen etc. is very difficult.Edit from [[User:Lowa|Lowa]]: If you're going to Perth, Dundee or Aberdeen, don't hitchhike from Stepps, I waited 3h in 3 different spots between Stepps and Stirling before getting real lift, I mean more than 5 miles. I've been hitchhiking for 7 years, I'm a girl, and that's the worst spot ever! You should hitchhike directly from Glasgow, it should work way better. One of my friend had the same story as me in Stepps a few weeks before
=== Direction Loch Lomond, West Scotland ===
==== Option 3 ====
So this option requires some back-tracking, but it seems like your best bet! Take the Megabus/900 Bus to Edinburgh (very easy to Blackride {see below] or just a couple of pounds) and ask the driver to let you out at the Harthill Services (the bus will pull off regardless but may not stop if you don't tell the driver). From there, cross over the A1 on the bridge and wait at the service station. In Oct. 2015, waited about 20 minutes before we got a ride to a service station in Carlisle.
==== Option 4 ====
The fourth option, which I tried and which may work for you, although I had no luck after waiting for 2,5 hours is the parking lane and the parking facility directly in front of the sliproad to the M74 [https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/House+of+Sher/@55.8524509,-4.2694017,18z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x3ff2a7b95b2c9cad!8m2!3d55.8525244!4d-4.2672122]. The place could be called ideal, as every traffic on your side of the road goes to the M74 in the right direction and there are often a lot of free spaces on the parking lane. If you walk down to the traffic lights, drivers can see you truning from both directions on to the M74.
One of the most ideal places for hitchhiking I`ve ever tried. No luck here. Fuck you, Glasgow!
==== For going to Galashiels or Peebles ====
One option proposed is to go to Edinburgh using the 900 Bus ( use megabus uk website for 5 pounds or lesser tickets to Edinburgh or see above) then in Ediburgh walk down to North Bridge take bus number 29 / Bus 49 to Eskbank, Tesco ( in Dalkeith ) { 1.5 pounds only } . Here go on A7 and hitch hike to Galashiels . On this route there are cars which also head to Peebles. Though it may seem a little longer, but its a faster and sure way to reach Galashiels or Peebles, which otherwise you may just be stuck on some country side road where people are just trying to reach to the next village and not going anywhere near your destination. In 3-4 hours from Glasgow you could easily reach Galashiels.
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