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=== South towards [[Orange]], [[Nîmes]], [[Marseille]], [[Saint-Étienne]] {{E|15}} ===
* TIP'''Tip''': If your final destination is in the direction of Saint-Etienne but not the city itself(i.e. Clermont Ferrand, Bordeaux, etc) then better stay at the first gas petrol station after Lyon(Aire de Solaize) and wait for a ride taking you to a gas petrol station that you are sure the driver goes to that is AFTER '''after''' St. Etienne. After Solaize there is no other good gas petrol station and you will be stuck with no choice but to go into the city of St. Etienne or back to Lyon. Sma tried the other gas petrol stations and lost a whole day doing that and ending up back in Lyon in the end. The other stations after Solaize are either too small or not really on the highway so the people that go there are just going to St. Etienne and not further.
* '''From near the center''': On ''Quai du Docteur Gailleton'' near ''Rue Franklin Roosvelt'' there is a bus stop which makes a great place for cars to pull over. It is very close to metro stop ''Ampère Victor Hugo'', but you can walk there easily from anywhere near the center. Getting there is very easy, follow the Rhone south on the western bank. It's a big boulevard that eventually turns into the A7 highway. When you see the blue signs (highway color), you're there. <br />There's plenty of traffic heading to [[Valence]] and [[Orange]], which is a good place to continue further East or West along the coast. Hitchhike on the left lane (cars on the right lane will then turn right...) a bit under the speed camera. <br />Quite fast you can get a ride to nearest [http://maps.hitchwiki.org/?lat=45.6504383704269&lng=4.838533401489258&zoom=15&trip=0&view=0 petrol station], which is situated 12 km south - just try hitchhiking with sign "A7 - 12km sud".<br /> Having a sign is warmly recommended, as the traffic is very divergent from there.
* Just in front of the 'Prison St-Joseph' on 'Quai Perrache' you can stand on the white-striped space between the continuing street and the lane that joins the motorway.
:Very dangerous in my opinion. Heavy traffic, almost no place to stop. I was driving past there once, there was a hitch-hiker and I, of all people, didn't have sharp enough reflexes to pick him up --[[User:Sitarane.mp|Sitarane.mp]]
* '''Directly from a petrol station (need to ride a train)''': A petrol station on A7, south of Lyon, on the level of a town called Vernaison, is a perfect place. To get there, you should take a train heading to Vernaison at gare de Perrache (3€3.20€20, three hour frequency). At Vernaison you cross the river (there are two bridges and an island between). Once on the other site of the river, turn left (north)and walk for a few kilometers Walk on the no-man's land between the motorway and some firm's fenced property; don't try to use the way behind the property. The distance from Vernaison train station to the petrol station is not the shortest one, but once you are there, you are really inside the motorway network, so it's worth the effort. [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=209328237440358599248.0004aef5513d637811a59 Description]
=== Getting onto [[A46 (France)|A46]] (Lyon Bypass) ===
=== Getting onto A42 - Direction Bourg-en-Bresse, [[Geneva|Genève]], [[Germany]] ===
Bus 171 will take you to the village of Montluel. It runs around every hour (time table from the [http://tcl.fr/index.asp?page=horaires&etape=3&Date=2010|03|27&Line=171|Pont%20Guilloti%E8re%20-%20Cr%E9pieux%20Les%20Brosses%20(Montluel)|16|tcl171|Pont%20Guillotiere%20RD%20vers%20Crepieux%20Les%20Brosses|Crepieux%20Les%20Brosses%20vers%20Pont%20Guillotiere%20RD|1|Bus&DateFinBases=2010|5|1&DateMajBases=????|??|??&StopArea=1467|tcl5046|H%F4tel%20de%20Ville%20-%20Louis%20Pradel|Lyon%201er&submit=Valider&Direction=1 tcl.fr]. Attention, the bus stop for "hotel de ville" is actually on the banks of the river Rhone. From the hotel de ville (the actual building) walk towards the river (east) to find it. The ride costs 2€€2.
In Montluel, go down at the train station. (The bus trip takes 50 min) Then walk direction Pérouges, turn right to direction of Niévroz. You cross under the railway and over the motorway. Looking to the left you see the petrol station you are heading for. The whole way to walk takes about 10-20min. See the place here: [http://maps.google.de/maps?f=d&hl=de&geocode=1972572113067456031,45.845405,5.070403&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=45.842912,5.07122&daddr=&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=14&sll=45.845363,5.062466&sspn=0.026786,0.080338&ie=UTF8&z=14&om=1]
