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Alternatively, you can walk straight down through St. Louis, or take the bus, down to the other end of town. Eventually, you will be at a small petrol station. Not exactly the best place, but there is a round-about that leads straight to the A35. There is only a small parking space for vehicles to stop, so not so ideal for trucks, however when I was hitchhiking there, there was heavy traffic coming from all directions and vehicles had to slow down as they turned. I only stood there for about 20-30mins. I found the atmosphere a lot nicer than around the border patrol. (On googlemaps: 47.59372,7.555225)
You can also take the bus number 50 to "Friedrich-Miescher-Strasse" and walk down the hill. There you'll find the [[slip road]] for the motorway to France. In the morning and especially in the evening there is a lot of traffic. And just next to it, you find a colorful squat, where you can probably find a sleeping place for a night, if hitchhiking just doesn't work. Nenad and Helena successfully hitchhiked to Mulhouse from Neudorfstrasse, just in front of the entrance to the meat factory (on googlemaps: 47.573284, 7.567158) in 2018.
=== North towards [[Germany]], [[Freiburg]] ===
You should follow the directions in the first paragraph. Also, one has to go to the other side of this [[petrol station hitchhiking|petrol station]] to go to [[Germany]]. There is a crossing at the restaurant at the '''Pratteln-Nord''' [[rest area|service station]].
A bigger rest area is just on the border to Germany! There it is very easy to find rides. You may also consider going have to take the big service station straight at the border at [[Regional express train to "Weil am Rhein]]". Even though you my find some folks heading to Germany from "Pratteln" as well, petrol is cheaper Then walk back in Germany so most people would refill therethe opposite direction the train was driving. Plus in [[Weil am Rhein]] all people will head into GermanyYou see a bridge leading over the railway lines. Take Cross the German "Regionalexpress" form "Badischer Bahnhof" bridge and get of after one station in [[Weil am Rhein]]walk straight ahead till there is a second street turning right. Follow Just follow this road to the signs for "Burger King" and rest area! (You can see it soon so it’s impossible you will don’t find the service station (~20 min walk from the train stationit!)
*Update (11-Aug-2014): If you want to try hitchhiking directly out of the city, walk from the trainstation Basel SBB (exit city) towards the tramstops. Once you reach the busy street (Nauenstrasse) turn to the right and follow this street. This street leads towards the highway entry, so you can start thumbing once you walked past a big bridge that goes to the right (Münchensteinerstrasse). After that turn, cars can stop easily on the sidewalk and can either take you to your desired direction or leave at the service station "Pratteln-Süd", where you can also cross the highway and find rides in all directions (see first paragraph).
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