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* Direction [[Opole/]], [[Wrocław/]], [[Legnica/Germany direction: ]], [[Berlin]] & , [[Görlitz]]* You may easily get to the A4 motorway entrance No. 307 from the city center by the following buses:**[http://www.kzkgop.com.pl/rozklady/frame.php?kat=059_20070201&nr=10&kier=1 Time table]59 kierunek Direction Żernica Pętla, **[http://www.kzkgop.com.pl/rozklady/frame.php?kat=194_20070201&nr=6&kier=1 Time table]194 kierunek: Leszczyny Czereśniowa **[http://www.kzkgop.com.pl/rozklady/frame.php?kat=710_20060701&nr=11&kier=1 Time table]710 kierunek: Szczygłowice Kopalnia
#*Direction [[Katowice]]/, [[Kraków]]/, [[Tarnów]]/, [[Rzeszów]]/, [[Przemyśl]]/[[Ukraine]] direction , [[Lviv]]
#*[[Mikołów]]/, [[Tychy]]
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The A4 is the main transit route from Germany to Ukraine.
It's pretty easy to get either ''in'' or ''out'' of the town. Therfore you may drop into for a beer or tea or decide to stay for a night (cheaper)instead of staying in Katowice.
[[Image:Gliwice schemat drog.jpg|right|thumb|234px|Road system of Gliwice -> Click to Enlarge]]
==Map of Gliwice==
Before reading the below's tips, you need to have a look at the [http://www.hitchwiki.org/Image:Gliwice_schemat_drog.jpg road scheme of Gliwice ].
If U you need more exact info, have a look @ at [http://www.um.gliwice.pl/index.php?id=14/1 city map]to see an exact, clicable clickable and scalable map of the town.
==Getting out of the town==
From '''Gliwice''', in [[Poland]], one may easily hitch the following directions .
===West===
''By A4 motorway to:''
All the timetables are given for the stops situated near the Gliwice main Railway station unless it's stated different.
You may check ALL timetables of the buses in Silesia area sorted either by stops or by line or number ("Przystanek" in Polish lng) at this [http://www.kzkgop.com.pl/rozklady/ website]
You need to get off at the bus stop called '''Trynek Ogródki Działkowe'''. It's the 5th bus stop from the railway station. The stop is situated just at the entrance to the motorway.
It is a 4 km long walk from the centre.
It's a pretty good hitch-hiking spot at the entrance to the highway as there is a parking lot allowing the drivers to stop easily.<br /> You may hitch here at night time too as the area is full of lamps. It's open area so it's a bit chilly & windy during winter. The only shelter against rain is the bus stop.
The only disadvantage of this place is that the directions to West ([[Wrocław]]) and East ([[Kraków]]) goes together at this point and separate some 100 m further after the park lot & highway sign.
===East===
''By A4 motorway to'':
all the same as with getting to West direction, as it is the same entrance.
''By National Road No.44 to:''
There are 2 options:
As Long As I live in here I never used this option I always asked for a lift at the traffic lights, therefore I'm not able to give you any mean await time
*Walk some 5 min to Mikołowska street (2 bus stop)and start asking drivers of cars stopped by the traffic lights. this This option is the fastest but Polish is necesarynecessary.
The Car matriculation system is:
* When you get off at the described bus stop you just need to cross the bridge over the motorway A4 and start hitching there.
* You may also get off one stop earlier and ask drivers @ at the by-the-road tankstation after Billa supermarket. There are sometime sometimes poeple waving thair their hands by the road - still an option if you don't speak polish enough to ask drivers. Mean await time to Rybnik is 17,2 min (Working day in a day light)* Expert option (for those who speak polish): Ask drivers stopped at the trafic light near a Kathedral Cathedral 5 min walk from town hall as all the transit traffic is stopped there (permanent trafic jams during rush hours)
===North===
* By National Road No. 901 to [[Olesno]] (junction with NR noNo.11 to [[Poznań]]) * By National Road No. 78 to [[Tanowskie Góry]] (juntion with NR No.11 to [[Poznań]])
==Getting into the town==
The Entrance/Exit (307) is the best to get off at, as it’s the shortest way to walk
(in case you arrive too late to catch a bus) to the town center.
==Staying overnight==
*There is an inexpensive [http://www.zsti.gliwice.pl/ptsm/index.html Yousth hostel ] (Hosteling International) in the town centre 8 min. walk from railway station.
*alternatively there is some 16 active members of [http://www.hospitalityclub.org Hospitality Club] who are wiling willing to share a place to stay and an advise with Uyou. :''More practical details and tips will follow.''
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