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There is a bus stop just outside the metro station San Cristobal (on line 3, or the "yellow" line) that is good to hitch from (make sure you're on the correct side of the road). There is nowhere else to pull over for several kilometers back toward the city. This same road (''Av. de Andalucia'') leads South, toward the entrance to the ''Autovía del Sur'' highway, which goes to Córdoba and Algeciras.Not far from the entrance to the ''autovía'' (maybe only about 5 or 10 km down) is another petrol station. So, you don´t even need to find a ride that is going very far from this point, because you can simply ask to be dropped at the next petrol station on the Autovía del Sur.
''This option worked really well for me. Got to one of the gas stations and got a ride to Andalucia in 5 minutes! Lola, January 2019.''
As hitching a ride standing on the road is quite difficult in Spain (especially in a big city like Madrid), it is probably better to follow these instructions:
Another option is taking the "cercanias" or "renfe" C-3, which leaves from Sol, to the Station "Valdemoro". The ticket should cost 3,30 € and it takes 30 minutes to get to "Valdemoro". Get off the train and walk down "Paseo de la Estacion", take a slight left onto "Calle República Argentina" (the road right next to the highway) take a right to follow "Calle República Argentina". After 100 meter turn left onto "Avenida de Andalucia" and follow it until you get to the petrol station. In total it is a 30 minute walk (going uphill, exhausting in summer). The petrol station is right next to the highway. There is also a big truck stop. The station has mostly local people (as it has a car wash) and is usually quite empty, but you will find somebody (going to Ocana) who will take you to the next service station.
In any case, try to get to the Sesana service station, it's on the motorway 4, between Valdemoro and Ocana. Although it is small, it has a restaurant, and unlike other service stations in the South of Madrid, you will find long distance rides there (Granada, Cordoba) with some patience.
=== East toward [[Valencia]], [[Murcia]] {{European Route Number|901}} ===
=== North towards [[Burgos]], Basque Country, [[Bordeaux]] {{European Route Number|5}} ===
[[Option 1]]
Take the metro to the station Pinar de Chamartín (1 euro). Walk on the street ''calle Arturo Soria'', cross the M-11, follow the street ''Camino de la Fuente de la Mora'', then turn left at the ''avenida de Manoteras''. You can stay directly in front of the train station. NoNastions got a ride there in 20 minutes. There is a traffic light and the cars can stop there, more or less.
This is an upper-class office area full of good-looking young people driving Mini and BMW 120d. There is a Cepsa petrol station on the left 300 meters further, but [[User:Grégoire|Grégoire]] didn't find it very welcoming and preferred to stick his thumb out at the end of the street, where he got a ride to another petrol station further on the A1 30 minutes later.
Once out of Madrid, safest idea is to request lifts to the various service stations, and simply approach people who drive in and politely ask them for a lift. TallNomad found a lift all the way to Bilbao from a service station/truckstop simply by approaching random strangers with a smile and explaining his journey plan. General waiting time is 30 minutes during the busier hours at a good spot. Avoid the smaller roads, except during tourist season, when loads of sat-navs send travellers on weird routes, and lifts can be found easily enough.
[[Option 2]]
Another option is to take the metro to 'Hospital Infanta Sofia' on line 1. From this metro station you can walk ten minutes up the road to a Shell petrol station on the side of the E5 heading north. From the metro station follow the road 'Paseo De Europa' for 800m.(Successfully used in September 2018).
[[Option 3]]
(Last check July 2018)
Take the bus 191 Madrid (Pza. Castilla) - Buitrago de Lozoya in Plaza Castilla and go to the stop CTRA.A1-CRUCE EL VELLÓN, which stops right on a Repsol petrol station (Estación de Servicio Repsol, CR A-I P.K. 49,00 D, 28729 Venturada, Madrid). It is a small petrol station but with lot of traffic and most cars go either to basque country or france. Last time I waited 20 minutes and I had a ride to Irun. The only inconvinient is that the bus costs 5€.
=== Northwest towards Galicia ===
Take metro line 3 to Moncloa. On one of the underground levels of the metro/bus station, take bus number 162 to stop 'Av. Padre Huidobro - Argentona', located on route A6 in the direction of La Coruña. You'll pass a Repsol garage- when you get off the bus, walk back down the road about 1.4km to reach it. There is a pavement followed by a foot-trail, so you don't have to walk on the road. Not a big garage but there's a steady trickle of drivers. [[User:Earlyturtle|Earlyturtle]] found a lift in 30 minutes in June 2017.
=== West towards [[Portugal]] {{European Route Number|90}} ===
Option 1. Take metro line 6 to the station ''Alto de Extremadura'' and then go to the Cepsa petrol station on the street ''Avenida de Portugal'', which is the A5 highway. Most traffic is still staying in the city, be patient and persistant. From there search here you can look for a lift at least to another the petrol station stations mentioned in Option 2 (very close by) or Option 3, or, even better, to the one at km 48 km down the A5(right before Las ventas de Retamosa, exit 49 ). Apparently if you walk 5 minutes down the road on the left there is a place that serves free food at 12.00pm. Option 2. Take metro 10 or 5 to Casa de Campo and walk to Repsol Batan gas station, on Paseo de Extremadura (A5 highway). Same chances as in Option 1, with most traffic still staying around Madrid. Option 3. Take a metro to Hospital de Móstoles (line 12) and walk about 1 km through end-of-suburbia fields (check the map). There is a good petrol station with a Burger King on the A5 close to Móstoles. You'll enter through the petrol station direction Madrid, and take the bridge to the other side of the highway, direction Talavera, Merida, Badajoz, Portugal.
Option 4? Alternatively, it seems like one could easily get to the service station "Polvoranca" on the [https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=40.337075,-3.802514&hl=en&sll=40.337009,-3.802621&sspn=0.009846,0.01929&mra=mift&mrsp=0&sz=16&t=m&z=16 R5].
You would have simply take the "10" metro line to puerto del sur, about 30 minutes riding away from the city centre, and then walk a kilometre or so down Av. Leganés, splitting off to the petrol station as you can [https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=40.337075,-3.802514&hl=en&ll=40.339127,-3.799456&spn=0.004923,0.009645&sll=40.337009,-3.802621&sspn=0.009846,0.01929&mra=mift&mrsp=0&sz=16&t=h&z=17 see here]
from this petrol station, it seems like most of the traffic would be going toward towards Toledo or Portugal.[[User:Fye|Fye]] checked this spot on Monday, 14.08.2017 two times (around 1 pm and 7 pm) and both times the petrol station was very dead, with very few cars passing it. In fact the whole R5 highway at this place is surprisingly dead for a highway. Not sure if that was about time or is it always like that. Better go directly to petrol stations on A5 though.
== Public transport ==
Madrid has a very extensive well-connected metro system that can help you get in and out of the city; a single metro journey is 2 Euros, and a ride on the cercanías should be between 2.50 and 4 euros. If the guard is not watching, or if the metro station has two entrances, you can usually jump the turnstiles. Once inside, there are few controls. The cercanías, however, have barriers at the entry AND the exit.
== More information Nomadwiki & Trashwiki ==* {{nomadwiki}} [http://www.hitchbase.com/ergebnisse.php?LANG=eng&abfrage%5Bstartort%5D=175 Hitchbase] has some information about getting out of Madrid.<br>[[trash:Madrid]]
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