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Heading towards Melbourne, you could wait for a lift on Glen Osmond Road before it joins the South Eastern Freeway (which is also the Princes Highway), a or further out of town along this highway at Crafers or Stirling. A number of bus lines including the 840, 841F, 861, 863, or 864 can drop you off at the intersection of Cross Road and Glen Osmond Road. There is a bus stop on Portrush Rd, and another on Princes Highway which you can try hitching or further atCrafers, Stirling. But this At the Cross/Glen Osmond intersection is still in city-area on a two-lane road, with a lot of local traffic and not very good visibility for cars to see the hitchhiker anywhere around this intersection until they are very close, further along you can stand at Crafers or Stirling small on-ramps to the highway which have less traffic but all are entering the highway and out of the city area.

After In one hitcher's experience, after the Glen Osmond intersection there isn't really space to stand by the road for quite a while, but the buses also go further along the freeway through Crafers, Arbury, Stirling and Mount Barker and you can try getting off any of these. The first stop out of town is stop 16 and is just a small road with not so much traffic but you can have luck walking a few metres past the petrol station to stand before the ramp back onto the freeway (one hitcher waited just 15 mins here). You could also take the bus further and find spots to stand at Crafers, Arbury, Stirling or Mount Barker where there will be more traffic.

In one another hitcher's experienceat the Glen Osmond intersection, mid-morning Saturday was the best time to find long rides. During the week much of the traffic is local and not good for an inter-city trip. You could also aim to get a lift toward's "Murray Bridge" (outside of Adelaide but in the direction of Melbourne) and get dropped off on a downhill section of the highway. Many trucks will pass you/pick you up heading to Melbourne. Another hitcher found it difficult to get a ride from the intersection on the edge of the city, but rather had more luck taking the bus to a place just a little further out along the highway.