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There are three main highways out of the Hobart area:

* The Brooker Highway ('''1'''), which heads north and splits into the Midlands Highway ('''1''') which heads north, and the Lyell Highway ('''A10''') which heads west. The intersection of these highways at the Bridgewater Bridge is one of the best places to hitch from to travel north or west, since cars have to slow down to 60km/h to travel through the intersection and the bridge. You'll probably need a ride to get you there though.

* The Southern Outlet ('''A6''') which heads south to the Huon Valley, the Channel area and Bruny Island (via ferry at Kettering). Hitching is best achieved from the start of the outlet at the end of Davey Street, which is a twenty minute walk from the CBD.

* The Tasman Highway (also known as the Eastern Outlet) ('''A3''') which heads east to the airport and the east coast. Precisely because of the Tasman Bridge crossing the Derwent just at the beginning of the highway, it is hard to start hitch-hiking somewhere near the city, as there is no proper side-road suitable for stopping cars before the bridge. One of the options is to reach the second highway entry at Warrane by taking bus #654, #655, #664 or #665 (there are often a whole bunch of numbers for the same line) getting out at "Shackleton Street" or "Stop nb 27" on Cambridge road, or you may ask the driver to drop you off closest to the motorway explaining him/her you are intending to hitch-hike. Finally, walk to the highway and get a ride there.

As there aren't so many buses on weekends and as enough drivers coming from the Southern Outlet will just pass through the CBD, another valuable option is to start hitching before the CBD on Davey Street.

===Public Transport===

Within the CBD and suburbs, [http://www.metrotas.com.au Metro Tasmania] provides a wonderful weekday service, even not finishing too early (there are buses up to 11pm on several lines). It's also cheap, by international standards. It's 3$30 ticket bought on board, but you can get 20% off with a Greencard account (easy and quick to have at Metro shop), and daily ticket is capped around 5$

A small problem is that the online timetables are always different from the ones at the bus station, which are also different from the real arrival of the bus (Always 5 minutes late, Hobart is a very relax city).

====To and from the airport====

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