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For the south one can use the first service station seen from the pedestrian bridge.

A big outward road leads from the city center over bridges over the Dordogne, over the ring motorway and later becomes the motorway A 89 (E 70) to the east. Shortly after it crosses the ring there is a good spot: There is a junction, where all the eastbound traffic from the ring joins. One may ask waiting drivers at the traffic lights or stand beside the road after that, because it is no motorway yet. Drivers can see you there, go slow because normally everyone has to stop at the traffic lights, and there is a broad hard shoulder, where one can safely stop and continue. Few hundred meters further there is also a small dedicated fuel station on that road.

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Take the purple line A (both lines to Dravemont or La Gardette bassens work) from the city center to the stop ''Buttinière''. The line follows a big alley (Avenue Carnot) for roughly 3km. At 'Buttinière you get out and walk along that same Avenure Carnot for another 1-1.5km passing on your left first the 'Polyclinique de Bordeaux', then a gigantic Carrefour supermarket and stop lights. After the stoplights as mentioned above there is a restaurant, a fuel station and a few ramps where you might try hitchhiking.