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From the city center, take metro 2 (the green line) towards ''Cologno'' or ''Gessate''. Get out at ''Gobba''.
If you want to go east towards [[Verona]] ==== Option 1: Motorway Service Station on the ([[A4 Ring Road ====Take metro 2 (Italygreen line)|A4]]), try the following. At the end of the platform of to ''GobbaCologno Nord''. Exit to the left and go down the stairs to the right, right where you get out of should see a parking with buses. Keep walking straight (northeast) for ≈600m along Via C.A. dalla Chiesa to the train, junction (there begins is a bridge over the motorway leading to an extra train which only goes to a hospitalthe left). It costs 1.20€. After you get out at Keep walking straight on along the hospital, follow the stream edge of people and go up the first steps you see field (round onesthere's a fence blocking your access on the motorway side). Look for 200m until you arrive at a high place – from there you can see big electricity pole with a petrol station. It is best is to ask someone to show couple of doors under it leading you the best way down to the petrol service station.
An alternative and easier option is to take ==== Option 2: Motorway Service Station on Ring Road (Cascina Gobba) ====Take metro 2 (the green line) to '''Cologno direction Cologne Nordor Gessate and get off at '''. It doesn't really matter which exit you leave the station by, as long as you are walking '''north'Cascina Gobba''. Follow From the road for about 5 or 10 minutes until platform right where you get to the beginning out of the bridge train, there begins a footbridge over the motorwayleading to an extra train which only goes to a hospital (Ospedale San Raffaele). It costs 1. Rather than actually crossing 20€. After you get out at the bridgehospital, you turn right, off follow the road, stream of people and walk along go up the raised grassy area beside the motorwayfirst steps you see (round ones). After 4 or 5 minutes Look for a high place – from there you will have reached can see a gas petrol station.Now (feb.2014) there It is best is a fence but if to ask someone to show you walk towards the electric tower youbest way down to the petrol station. '''ll find a broken part Both petrol station are still on Milano ring road, which means most of people will be going just nearby the fence where you can pass city. Refuse any lift which doesn't go at least after Agrate; ask for a big Agip petrol station called "Brianza", from there finding lifts will be super-easy though don't risk to get stuck on the other side motorway, that is illegal.''' You might be lucky and reach find direct lifts to [[Verona]] or further, (e.g. there's a guy doing every day Milano-Vicenza and back since some 5-7 years and probably he's not the only one). However, the gas best combination to go to [[Venice]] or [[Slovenia]] is: Ringroad station.-> Agip "Brianza" Station -> Sommacampagna (Verona) Bauli Station -> Arino (Padova) Limenella Station -> Further
Walk for around 10 minutes from ''Porto di Mare'' metro station to the petrol station (also ''Agip'') on the other side of the motorway. Look on the city map in metro stations how to walk there exactly - very simple.
Option 2 : Another easier option Walk for around 10 minutes from ''Porto di Mare'' metro station to reach Bologna and South Italy is to take the Green Line to Cascina Gobba, after that get out from the petrol station and you should see many orange buses( Atmalso ''Agip''), so go left and you will find a gate, go in and walk until you will arrive to a roundabout and from there you can see on the gas station in other side of the highway which you reach easily in two minutesmotorway.The advantages of this spot compared to the "Porto di Mare" spot is that this is Look on the highway, Porto di Mare it's notcity map in metro stations how to walk there exactly - very simple. So it should work fine!Update 8/2014 They are renovating the gas station! Probably it will be opened in spring 2015 on time for the Expo!
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== Hitching out ==
=== East towards [[Verona]] {{Ait|4}} {{European Route Number|64}} ===
=== Southeast towards [[Bologna]] {{European Route Number|35}} ===
=== South towards [[Genova]] {{European Route Number|62}} ===
Take the metro to the station ''Famagosta''. When you exit to the street, to the east you will see a bridge. This is the A7 motorway. You then have to walk a couple of minutes north parallel with the bridge to where the motorway begins. There is a traffic light and a petrol station. It is best to stand a couple of meters north of the traffic light, next to the petrol station entrance, with a sign. Cars are going slowly (or stopping at the traffic light) and there is enough room for a car to stop easily.
Edit: When you leave the station head to where all the buses are and walk to the far end. Turn right and you will see the entrance to the motorway. Though it didn’t seem like the best of places. The other nearby entrance to the motorway has zero space to walk let alone for a car to stop.
Another option is to just catch bus 46 after you leave Famagosta. Take it just 1? stop about 5 minutes. There is a pizza place called Fratelli Diversi by the bus stop. (Big green sign). Ahead you’ll see a pedestrian bridge over the motorway which leads right to a service station on the highway and the advantage of being able to talk to people.
=== West towards [[Torino]] {{European Route Number|64}} ===
==== Option 1: Slipway Via Antonio Sant'Ellia ====
At the end of Via Antonio Sant'Ellia (metro station QT8 on the red line) close to the park Monte Stella, there is a big slipway to the full motorway interchange between A8 and A4. So it is possible to hitch to west, north and east from there. Stand on the curb before the slipway splits with a sign. There is a street lamp nearby, so it is possible to hitch at night. N.B. occassionally there is street prostitution on the other side of the road close to stadium San Carlo.
==== Option 2: Via Fratelli Rizardi traffic light ====
Another good place where you can catch more westwards traffic is at metro stop Molino Dorino. There is a roundabout which splits the ramps and car park driveways. Stand at the traffic light close to Via Fratelli Rizardi with a sign. Because of the traffic light, cars need stop longer before ramping onto the motorway tangenziale ovest A50, so you have more chance to be seen and longer time for the driver to think.
==== Option 3: Q8 and McDonald's on Viale Alcide de Gasperi ==== Good spot to go to Torino/French Alps and it was really good and actually it’s possible to go in the other directions too - like [[Verona]], [[Venice]]. It’s a petrol station/McD near of the metro station QT8. It’s necessary to walk in Via Collecchio and cross the bridge. There is a park in the end of the bridge and you must follow the path until find a small street called Via Don Luigi Palazzolo and turn right in the road. Around 100 m further you will find the petrol station where you can ask for someone there or you can go directly to the road with a sign. I got a ride directly to [[Chamonix]] (France) and the driver was on his way to [[Geneva]]. This spot is less than 10 minutes walking from the metro station. ==== Option 4: Area Servizio Pero Nord ==== Getting to a service area on the Autostada is very simple. One takes the Metro Line 1 to Pero station (direction Rho Fiera Milano: trains on Line 1 alternate destinations between Rho Fiera Milano and Bisceglie, which is to the southwest), and then walking southwest on the little pedestrian street onto which the station exits (Via Mario Greppi) you turn right on Via Oratorio. Follow it to the end where to your left there will be a roundabout; enter the roundabout and take the first right onto Via Papa Giovanni XXIII. You'll see a water tower of sorts in the distance, which is to where you walk. Just below and beside the tower, on your right, there will be a little paved walkway which is a pedestrian and bike trail over the highway. You'll see the service area to your left as you're crossing the highway. Follow the trail as it continues just below the station's fence and shortly you'll find a revolving metal door that provides easy pedestrian access, and then you're in! A map of these directions can be found [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yBP-giXHtgj3lCH7x0XUXrFzK4fhCx41&usp=sharing here]; it takes around 20 minutes walking. It is not the busiest of all service areas, but there is a steady flow of traffic; many trucks stop here for their pausa, and many take the turn right after the station onto the {{Ait|50}} on their way to Switzerland. [[User:Movethathoof|MovethatHoof]] found a ride to Turin here within twenty minutes of asking cars that stopped. === North towards Como,[[Switzerland ]] {{Ait|8}} {{Ait|9}} ===
There is a petrol station on the A8, before the junction where the A9 branches off, leading towards Switzerland.
You can reach it by taking a local train to the community of Rho ('''S5 or S6 ''' should go there, 5 stops, 2-3 Euros but there are no barriers et5. Important: '''Don't take the metro to Rho''' - it stops at the Expo site 5km before Rho central) and then taking a '''bus Z113''' towards Lainate. Just ask around at the bar in the Rho train station, they should be able to tell you what (direction is Saronno; bus to take (a is blue one, not the orange ones!) . [[File:Bus-rho-lainate.jpg]] The bus should cost around 1,55 Euros. Get off at the stop '''Via Pagliera ''' (the stop isn't called Pagliera anymore, but it's right after the roundabout) or Via Alessandro Manzoni, and walk towards the little roundabout between Via Giacomo Puccini, Via Scarlati and Via Gaetano Donizetti. This is an industrial area, just walk to the end of Via Gaetano Donizetti, you will reach the petrol station, southwards (there is a turnstile in the fence- when you get closer to the area keep left to find it). On the petrol station, find the '''sottopassagio'''/underground walkway which will take you to the other side. From there, it should be easy to get a hitch on the A8 or A9 northwards, towards Lago Maggiore, Lago di Como, Switzerland. To Lago di Como it is quick to get a ride from 45°29'59.9"N 9°07'50.6"E. Off the record: if you are taking the train from Como back to Milan after 21, they almost never check tickets. ==== Option 2. Service Station directly on the A9. ==== You can take a regional train heading towards Como and get off at Cadorago. (Very unlikely to get checked for a ticket.) Then cross the parking lot at the station to the roundabout. Then heading away from the tracks, follow Via Roma for about 500 meters until SP26 (Via Alessandro Volta). Turn right and go about 600 meters to via Giacomo Puccini. Turn right and go about 400 meters and you will arrive at the service station. From here you should easily be able to find a ride into Switzerland and across the Alps.
== Sleeping ==
The are two places Milano where you can have free food. Both give food for homeless, poor people and are called [http://www.panequotidiano.eu/contatti/ "Pane Quotidiano"] (It means "daily bread")
They usually give some bread, pasta, vegetables and sweets every day without asking you money or papers from 7:00 to 11:00.
One is located in Viale Monza 335 you can arrive easily there with the Red Metro Line in Villa San Giovanni the other one is located in Viale Toscana 28 you can arrive there with the bus 90. You can recognize it easily because you can see lots of people waiting there. ('''Note: Do not abuse these places, they are for those who really need it!''' [[Userhttps://prino.neocities.org/ Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[httphttps://hitchwikiprino.neocities.org/prino/ indez.html#prinos-blog blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 13:16, 2 June 2014 (CEST)) == Busking in Milano == Milan has a very welcoming policy for street performances. They may now perform in the designated squares and streets every day of the week from 09.00 to midnight. There is an official website [http://milano.stradaperta.it/start.htm "Strada Aperta"] where you can book the place where you would like to perform, usually you can find many performers in the centre from Corso Vittorio Emanuele to Piazza Castello.
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