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Even worse is the fact, that there are almost no service areas or gas stations directly at the motorway, which means, no good places to get dropped of, and no good places to start.

Long distance traffic usually tries to drive round this area and this is what you should try when transiting, if possible.

When coming from the West, it will be quite difficult to cross the Area. A good place could be the service area ''Ohligser Heide'', close to [[Düsseldorf]], which is difficult to reach by hitching, but easy to reach by public transport.

The public transport in this area is coordinated in a transport network (called ''VRR''), which means that you can take any bus/tram/subway/supension railway/train (execpt IC and ICE) with one ticket. For about 9 euros, you can get a ticket to get from anywhere to anywhere.<br />

Tickets for only one city are about 2,20 Euros.

[[Category:Nordrhein-Westfalen]]