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=== North towards [[Firenze]], [[Milano]] ===
* Option 1: Take bus 92, 135 from Termini, get out off at Salaria, which ("Prati Fiscali/Salaria" no to be confused with the street named "Via Salaria" wich is quite a few stops before the actual "Salaria" stop). Its is right at the entrance of some kind of motorway(wich is not yet the highhay, the pay toll ("pedaggio") entering on highway A1 is still about 6 km away). You can walk along this two-lanes motorway and find a petrol station a few hundreds meters further up. There, but people ask for a ride to the highway. People could also be heading to [[Rieti]] (''check this name''), which might turn out not too bad eitherask them if they can let you at the pay toll ("casello"), where there is a petrol station right before. [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] and [[User:Amylin|amylin]] waited 20 minutes for a ride (which is a lot less than the average waiting time in Italy). Reminder: this is '''not''' a good neighborhood with plenty of prostitutes. Hitching after 22:00 is not recommended, nor is girls hitching alone here. 25 Sept 2009: Men picking women up here are likely to ask for sex. Even at the next gas station. Don't be too eager to get in the car here, choose wisely!
* Option 2: [httphttps://mapswww.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Rome,/place/Eni+Salaria+Italie&sll=35Est/@42.2456190045509,-95.712891&sspn=3312.9055425272698,56.513672&ie428m/data=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rom!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x132f6196f9928ebb:0xb90f770693656e38!2sRome,+Latium,Metropolitan+City+of+Italien&ll=42Rome!3b1!8m2!3d41.005571,129027835!4d12.525272&spn=04963655!3m4!1s0x132f660a0d488fbb:0x2dbde5837b566932!8m2!3d42.00759,0004548!4d12.013797&t5288935?hl=h&z=16 en This] is a petrol station on the motorway A1 towards Firenze. To get there, take the metro (costs 1.5 euro) to "Tiburtina", and from there a regional train to "Sette BagniSettebagni". It takes 20 minutes and , leaves every 15 minutes on weekdaysand costs 1 Euro. Then you should have a look at Google maps to find the way to the bridge over the motorway which leads you to the petrol station, the road is called Via dell' Inviolatella Salaria. You shouldn't walk more than about 15 minutes. Until Firenze, there are around 5 more petrol stations to change cars, so it goes quite well. The last one is 5 km before Firenze. '''Problem''': If you don't find the way, or if the way is blocked (e.g. in March 2014, by a massive building site), it is really really hard to get to the spot. There are swamps, loads of fences, private property, tremendously overgrown ramps and murderous blackberry bushes. Local people don't seem to know anything about the little footbridge, so you need to be quite determined. '''''Update July 2016''''': The road has been signposted as 'Via della Maremma', but the original road Via dell' Inviolatella Salaria continues to the north from the hairpin turn halfway up Via della Maremma. Dont follow the hairpin turn around to the south, but follow the way here around the construction site fence in the field to the left and continue on Via dell' Inviolatella Salaria which is private property from here on. This is much easier than jumping the fence into the construction site at the end of Via della Maremma at the top of the hill. '''''Update September 2018''''': The construction site is still there, but I followed the instructions from the previous update and everything worked out. To make it explicit: [https://goo.gl/maps/RSDE7BRwM4x map] - from the pin walk along the highway to find a hole in blackberry bushes to jump over a fence. Rest should be easy.
Alternative: [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.010805,12.51824&num=1&t=h&sll=42.00736,12.52286&sspn=0.016583,0.032015&ie=UTF8&ll=42.009525,12.521281&spn=0.009008,0.01929&z=16 This] is petrol station which should at least bring you on the highway A1. (But probably it's worth looking for a totally other petrol station on A1 which is reachable by public transport; at the latter station a lot of people don't head onto the motorway, a lot head home)
To Grosseto: Take bus to Maglianella/Riserva Di Torretta, and walk a little bit forward to the highway and turn left, walk 20meters, there is a bus stop « Aurelia/Brava », a big place for car to stop.
=== South towards [[Napoli]], [[Sicily]] ===
From Termini go by metro line B to Ponte Mammolo station, and there you can take bus 508 (that is first station) and go untill last station - Mondavio. That is one long ride and you will come close to crossroad of second ring of highway around Rome and highway from Rome to east [Pescara, L Aquila]. Actually from that last station (Mondavio),you have walking around 500m to highway and then choose left to toll (around 1000m) or right to gas station (the same distance). We were walking on the highway which is illegal, but we had a luck not to be caught by police. Link for buses and metro in Rome: http://www.atac.roma.it/index.asp
Link for map of gas stations on italian highways: http://www.autostrade.it/
There's a much more practical option if you want to head east. It's a gas station at the very beginning of A24 on the outbound side. GPS coordinates are: [https://www.google.com/maps?q=41.900767,12.549775 41.900767, 12.549775]
While the gas station described above has got traffic heading other directions already filtered out, this one serves people going multiple directions, but is way closer to the city center, easier to reach and still very effective. From Roma Termini, ride subway line B towards Rebibbia, and get off at Monti Tiburtini. From there, walk down the main road until you're just past the second overpass (exact coordinates here: 41.902511, 12.556836). From there, walk up the off-ramp trying to keep behind the guardrail. At some point you'll have to walk on the very road because of a fence surrounding a canal, but you can climb back over the guardrail after that. At the end of the off-ramp, you'll have to walk on the motorway again, but it's just a very short distance, and a part of it is ever sheltered by a concrete divider. The gas station is just a few meters down the road.
My friend and I (two boys) tried this in October 2017 and it was fine. The staff was very tolerant, they told us we were fine as long as we didn't stand under the covered part of the station, but there's plenty of other areas to ask people, like the parking lot and the self-service lot. We got a ride after 30 minutes, and it took us 4 rides to make it all the way to Teramo.
== Public transport ==
There were hardly any checks on tickets in buses, and you could even take a bus from [[Sabaudia]] (90 kilometers away) without paying for a ticket - until November 2007, when there was an increase in the number of officials checking for tickets on buses and trams in Roma. This is said to be a direct result of new systems in the metro requiring less man-power there. Just keep your eyes open, officials are easy to spot and to avoid. In 2009, some people were fined in a tram; they were caught while they were leaving. You can buy tickets in bars or in news-stalls.
It is very hard to be fined for not having a ticket in Rome, but it may happen (as of 2017). One good method is to purchase a ticket but not validate it. Spend your journey beside one of the yellow validation machines (check it is not "out of service" first - fuori servizio), so that in case an official checkers arrives, you can validate it. You can keep going for months like this in Rome.
If you want to take the metro you need a ticket. In some metro stations you can try to enter 2 people with 1 ticket if no officials are looking.
If you are using the "trenino" (small train) from ''Termini'' to ''Centocelle'', keep in mind that at the 2 end stations (Roma Laziali at Termini, and Centocelle) you have to validate the ticket like on the metro but at any other station you don't. So you can just walk one station and board on the train.
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