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Go to S-Bahn-station Schöneweide, out of the station, turn right and after 300 meter you'll find two big gas stations - although the Autobahn is far away-these are mostly the last possibilities for cars to get petrol - was once crowded with hitchhikers but is normally empty now and works fine! | Go to S-Bahn-station Schöneweide, out of the station, turn right and after 300 meter you'll find two big gas stations - although the Autobahn is far away-these are mostly the last possibilities for cars to get petrol - was once crowded with hitchhikers but is normally empty now and works fine! | ||
| − | However the attendants at the gas station will ask you to look for your ride elsewhere and may even call the police. The road leading to the Autobahn is a no stopping zone, so the best solution is to stand near the Burger King, where a driver can pull in. | + | However the attendants at the gas station will ask you to look for your ride elsewhere and may even call the police. The road leading to the Autobahn is a no stopping zone, so the best solution is to stand near the Burger King, where a driver can pull in. There is no better spot further up the road toward the Autobahn. |
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| + | Alternatively go to S-bahn-station Alt Glienicke. Leave the platform illegally at the east end, then hike over the rails, which will bring you to the B96. The road is also named Am Seegraben. There is a wide emergency lane and a speed limit of 50 kmh. Use a sign to get a lift to Dresden (DD), Braunschweig (BS) / Hannover (H) / Michendorf or Frankfurt an der Oder (FF) / Poland (Poznan). | ||
===East (Poland)=== | ===East (Poland)=== | ||
Revision as of 12:13, 6 June 2007
Contents
Berlin [1] is the capital of Germany.
Hitching Out
South or West
For going South or West you can try the Raststaette Grunewald at 150m walking from the S-bahn station Nikolassee. Usually you will encounter some other hitchhikers. Normally you get a car at the gas-station within few minutes - at least a car to Michendorf!
An other option is the Aral gas-station at Kaiserdamm near the central bus-station. Take U2 to Kaiserdamm (if you come from direction Zoo) and go out in the driving direction. Leave the station on the left exit. After 50m there is the gas-station. <liftershalte lat='52.519' lng='13.45' zoom='10' view='0' float='right' width='450' /> It depends on the day. Sometimes it's very easy to get away, sometimes it's harder.
Trampstelle Potsdam There is a local campaign for an official hitchhiking spot in Potsdam, they made a petition and won it :) The hitchhiking spot is planned now and will be established soon.
Rasthof Michendorf—just 30 minutes by RegionalTrain southwest of Berlin—is Hitchhikers' heaven. You easily get hitches to the south, west as well as to the east (Poland). Take a train (for example RE3 to Dessau, check fahrinfo-berlin.de for route information.) from the centre (2.60 EUR) get off at Michendorf and find your way to the gas-station (map in front of the train station) which is surrounded by a wall. Follow this wall and enter through an iron door!
North or Northeast (Baltic Sea)
Go to S-Bahn-station Pankow-Heinersdorf - there you're at the beginning of the Autobahn - just walk 200m down the bridge and you've got a traffic-light as well as a gas station.
Northwest (Hamburg)
If you want to hitchhike towards Hamburg or Schwerin on the A24 it is best to go with the U6 towards Alt-Tegel and get off at Kurt-Schumacher-Platz and then start walking towards the highway. About 2 minutes away from the U-Bahn station there is a Jet-gasstation. You can either ask the drivers who stop there or stand at the road right before it.
- At the moment this spot doesn't work, because of a construction site at the "Tegel Tunnel" (Jan 2007)*
South (Dresden)
Go to S-Bahn-station Schöneweide, out of the station, turn right and after 300 meter you'll find two big gas stations - although the Autobahn is far away-these are mostly the last possibilities for cars to get petrol - was once crowded with hitchhikers but is normally empty now and works fine!
However the attendants at the gas station will ask you to look for your ride elsewhere and may even call the police. The road leading to the Autobahn is a no stopping zone, so the best solution is to stand near the Burger King, where a driver can pull in. There is no better spot further up the road toward the Autobahn.
Alternatively go to S-bahn-station Alt Glienicke. Leave the platform illegally at the east end, then hike over the rails, which will bring you to the B96. The road is also named Am Seegraben. There is a wide emergency lane and a speed limit of 50 kmh. Use a sign to get a lift to Dresden (DD), Braunschweig (BS) / Hannover (H) / Michendorf or Frankfurt an der Oder (FF) / Poland (Poznan).
East (Poland)
Rasthof Finkenplan - is hard to reach - best start from Michendorf!!
