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=== West towards [[Paris]] (A4, ) ===There's a bus that takes you all the a way to a highway gas station. However, it runs only once an hour on weekdays, and only if you telephone-call them on weekends and holidays. The call-for-bus scheme involves registration and you have to call one day before, so you're probably better off riding the L3 bus to Woippy (a busy line) and walking-hitchhiking the D4 north-west if it's Sunday. Hitchhiker [[User:Cagatay|Cagatay]] went there all Get off when it crosses the highway and the gas station will be staring straight at you. All the way on foot and it from Metz took 3 hours.

It's On normal days, take bus 106, get . Get off at '''''Champ Banal''''' (ask the driver to announce the stop for you). From there, walk the same way the bus left, towards the highway almost up to the very intersection and right before it take to the right onto a dirt road on the side of a field. Walk this dirt road alongside A4 and you'll see a service station around 500 meters ahead.

[https://lemet.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/P106.pdf Bus 106 PDF timetabletimetables and map](figure out which station is near you with this)

[https://lemet.fr Metz bus network website] Whatever you do, don't get dropped off where the A4 (east/west) meets the A31(heading south towards Metz). I made that mistake but it's a full-speed on-ramp and very dangerous. I only wound up getting a lift on the A4 because there was an accident that slowed traffic to a crawl! - [[User:Darkhawk|Darkhawk]]

From '''Option 1''' From Gare SNCF'' (the main train station) or ''Place de la De La République'' take the bus number 8 or U to '''''Technopole''''' (both stop next to lake Symphonie - ask the driver). From there walk to Grigy (part of Metz). Once in Grigy, keep on walking along D955 outwards the city center (follow the signs to Strasbourg). The road goes slightly uphill on top of which there's a roundabout right before the short bridge over the motorway to Nancy, then another roundabout. Stand just right after the second roundabout (one hitchhiker tried three times there and never had to wait for more than 20 mins). If you go to Germany make a sign for Strassbourg and then get off at the [[péage|peage]] which is about 30 km away. You can also make a sign saying A4 Est Peage '''Option 2'''  This spot next to the bridge of Rue Du Général Delestraint over A4 [https://goo.gl/maps/wNDAwkvffQQwk1pH6 map] If you use a sign saying A4, make sure the driver is not going north towards Paris (learned the hard way). Try to get a ride to one of the rest stops on the A4. Aire De Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold Sud rest stop is the biggest on the way (with free wi- Peagefi and showers) from there, you will find many truckers going towards Saarbrücken.

It is possible to get a ride towards these three different directions by standing on the '''''Avenue Joffre''''', under the bridge, in the western part of town, very close to the city centre. It merges with the A31 300m further. Always use a sign here.

Hitchhiker experience [linux2400] - I agree with Jass, also waited several hours there. Then I walked east for about 100m to the roundabout in front of '''''Chambre de commerce et de l'industrie''''' and got taken pretty rapidly, so this is the spot I would recommend if you want to start from downtown. There's red lights and places to stop and all the cars end up on the motorway all the same. == Nomadwiki & Trashwiki == {{nomadwiki}}